syntactic dependency
Word-to-word relationship
Syntactic dependency is a grammatical relationship where one word in a sentence depends on another for its meaning or function.
In the tall building, both *the* and *tall* depend on *building*—they modify it and can't stand alone without it.
The term belongs to linguistics and computational language processing, where mapping these dependencies helps parse sentence structure.
- subjectMatter under discussion
- predicateSentence's non-subject portion
- headUppermost body part
- valencyAtom's bonding capacity
- universal grammarInnate linguistic faculty hypothesis
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