In linguistics, a grammatical construction is any syntactic string of words ranging from sentences over phrasal structures to certain complex lexemes,...

as in general semiotics, the grammatical construction is a pairing of form and content. The formal aspect of a construction is typically described as a...

Grammaticalization has been defined as "the change whereby lexical items and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions...

simply a grammar. A fully revealed grammar, which describes the grammatical constructions of a particular speech type in great detail is called descriptive...

In linguistics, grammaticality is determined by the conformity to language usage as derived by the grammar of a particular speech variety. The notion of...

possessed. That means basically that in such languages, saying my sister is grammatically correct but not my land. Instead, one would have to use a circumlocution...

antipassive construction) The man bought a ring. (one object) The man bought his wife a ring. (two objects) In grammatical construction theories, transitivity...

passive voice construction is a grammatical voice construction that is found in many languages. In a clause with passive voice, the grammatical subject expresses...

explicator verb, provides fine distinctions (such as speaker attitude or grammatical aspect) and carries the inflection (markers of tense, mood and agreement)...

The going-to future is a grammatical construction used in English to refer to various types of future occurrences. It is made using appropriate forms of...

lifespan. Stage-level predicates can occur in a wide range of grammatical constructions and are probably the most versatile kind of predicate. An individual-level...

distinction is made between endocentric and exocentric constructions. A grammatical construction (for instance, a phrase or compound) is said to be endocentric...

In grammar, a genitive construction or genitival construction is a type of grammatical construction used to express a relation between two nouns such as...

active-voice clause to an equivalent passive-voice construction, the subject and the direct object switch grammatical roles. The direct object gets promoted to...

understood as a category that expresses (grammaticalizes) time reference; namely one which, using grammatical means, places a state or action in time....

In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not...

The applicative voice (/əˈplɪkətɪv/; abbreviated APL or APPL) is a grammatical voice that promotes an oblique argument of a verb to the core object argument...

In linguistics, an absolute construction is a grammatical construction standing apart from a normal or usual syntactical relation with other words or sentence...

... Not! is a grammatical construction in the English language used as a function word to make negative a group of words or a word. It became a sardonic...

A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential...

Lesser Antilles as well as the Greater Antilles. It is in the nature of grammatical conventions evolving over time that it is difficult to establish when...

In linguistics, a grammatical category or grammatical feature is a property of items within the grammar of a language. Within each category there are...

A type of grammatical construction; see affirmative and negative A double negative is a construction occurring when two forms of grammatical negation are...

AP) is a type of grammatical voice that either does not include the object or includes the object in an oblique case. This construction is similar to the...

Apposition is a grammatical construction in which two elements, normally noun phrases, are placed side by side so one element identifies the other in a...

1828: I understand that this is a rule in the construction of methods, in the first case, the grammatical meaning of the words must be followed. If it...

A split infinitive is a grammatical construction in which an adverb or adverbial phrase separates the "to" and "infinitive" constituents of what was traditionally...

In linguistics, inversion is any of several grammatical constructions where two expressions switch their typical or expected order of appearance, that...

In linguistics, grammatical mood is a grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality.: 181  That is, it is the use of verbal inflections that...

verb. Prepositions cannot perform such shifting, i.e., they cannot grammatically switch positions with their complement, e.g. He is relying on Susan...