grammatical function

collocation in English

meanings of grammaticaland function

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grammatical
adjective
uk /ɡrəˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/ us /ɡrəˈmæt̬.ɪ.kəl/
relating to grammar or obeying the rules ...
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function
noun
uk /ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/ us /ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/
the natural purpose (of something) or the duty (of ...
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Examples of grammatical function

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In some cases, arguments bear semantic properties that, typically, require that they bear a direct grammaticalfunction, but in these cases they do not.
A-movement targets a position which may be associated with a grammaticalfunction, essentially a subject position.
The grammaticalfunction of some forms which may have different functions (indirect object\\direct object) is specified in brackets.
This is accomplished by assigning a grammaticalfunction to the newly created phrase.
They reported that their children began to learn common nouns at a faster rate than predicates or grammaticalfunction words.
The composition analysis focused on four lexical categories : social terms, common nouns, predicates and grammaticalfunction words.
The percentages of social terms, common nouns, predicates and grammaticalfunction words were calculated for each child in two different ways, as described earlier.
Instead, grammatical functions assume the role of grammatical primitives, and major constituents are annotated for their grammaticalfunction.
The grammaticalfunction of each pair is manually tagged.
Control, (27) is more problematic : the shared grammaticalfunction is an argument of both the matrix and subordinate verbs.
Then, the only difference between the two groups of children was in the percentage of grammaticalfunction words in the lexicons of >425 words.
Rather, it was the grammaticalfunction of the items that varied markedly.
We also confirm that the lexical information is quite important in the grammaticalfunction analysis.
When such parallels multiply across factors, it suggests that the grammaticalfunction marked by did is the same in both.
This account is rather vague and implies that discourse considerations take precedence over grammaticalfunction assignment.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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