Syntactic function

The term syntactic function is sometimes used in the sense of grammatical relation.

Comments

This is the term used in Functional Grammar (Dik 1989) and also in Quirk et al. (1985:723-738)

Synonyms

• grammatical function
• grammatical relation

Other languages

German syntaktische Funktion

References

• Dik, Simon. 1989. The Theory of Functional Grammar. Dordrecht: Floris
• Quirk, Randolph & Sidney Greenbaum & Geoffrey Leech & Jan Svartvik. 1985. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.