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relational grammar

relational grammar noun: a syntactic theory, originally an alternative to transformational grammar, arguing that primitive grammatical relations provide the ideal means to state syntactic rules in universal terms.

Noun

relational grammar (uncountable)

  1. A syntactic theory, originally an alternative to transformational grammar, arguing that primitive grammatical relations provide the ideal means to state syntactic rules in universal terms.

Questions about relational grammar

What does relational grammar mean?
Relational grammar means a syntactic theory, originally an alternative to transformational grammar, arguing that primitive grammatical relations provide the ideal means to state syntactic rules in universal terms.
What part of speech is relational grammar?
Relational grammar is a noun.

Words near relational grammar in the dictionary

  1. relational attributes
  2. relational communities
  3. relational community
  4. relational database
  5. relational databases
  6. relational grammar
  7. relational model
  8. relational models
  9. relational operator
  10. relational operators
  11. relationalism

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