Grammatical relation

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The term grammatical relation is the most common term in American linguistics for notions such as 'subject', object', etc. (e.g. Marantz 1984 and the Relational Grammar literature)

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The term is used to refer to a link between two elements, while grammatical function refers to one of the members of a relation.

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References

Marantz, Alec P. 1984. On the nature of grammatical relations. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.