Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research
Grammatical relations typology - Traditionally, the term
"grammatical relation" (GR) refers to the morphosyntactic
properties that relate an argument to a clause, as, for example,
its subject or its object. Alternative terms are "syntactic
function" or "syntactic role", and they highlight the fact that
GRs are defined by the way in which arguments are integrated
syntactically into a clause, i.e. by functioning as subject,
object etc. Whatever terminology one prefers, what is crucial
about the traditional notion of GRs is (a) that they are
identified by syntactic properties, and (b) that they relate an
argument to the clause.