What is government?

What is government?

Definition
	Government is a term used in grammatical analysis to refer to a kind of syntactic linkage whereby one word (or word class) requires a specific morphological form of another word (or class).

Context for this page:

Concept module: government
In modular book: Glossary of Language Learning Terms, by International Language Learning Department
In document collection: Other Resources
In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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