relational grammar

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relational grammar

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uncountable 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.

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@misc{relational_grammar_2026,
  title = {relational grammar},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/relational%20grammar},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}