Category
page 1Grammatical construction types
nominative case
grammatical case
passive
grammatical voice common in many languages
relative clause
grammatical structure in some languages
noun phrase
phrase the head of which is a noun
antipassive
type of grammatical voice
applicative
grammatical voice
grammatical construction
any syntactic string of words ranging from sentences over phrasal structures to certain complex lexemes, such as phrasal verbs

adpositional phrase
phrase the head of which is an adposition
serial verb construction
construction of verb compounds in some languages
possession
asymmetric relationship between two constituents in the context of linguistics
inalienable possession
in linguistics, a type of possession in which a noun is obligatorily possessed by a possessor; e.g. “hand” or “mother” implies someone’s hand or mother; in English, “father of Mary” is acceptable (because inalienable), but “squirrel of Mary” is not