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Dictionary of language and linguistics 996language, syntactic-semantic relations in a sentence are determined by the valence of theverbal expressions, cf. x loves y, x falls between y and z, and expressed by noun phrases(and any corresponding case markers). For special characteristics of relation,symmetrical relation, transitive relation. reflexive relation, connex relation,converse relation; for relation in syntax, dependence, domination, constituency; forrelation in semantics, semantic relation. ( also set theory)formal logic, set theory2 syntactic functionReferencesrelation judgmentIn formal logic, a judgment in which a relation between two or more objects with regardto size, serial order, placement in space and time, relatedness, among others, is expressed,for example, Philip is older than Caroline or Philip is the brother of Caroline.relational adjectiveadjectiverelational expressionA noun with a one-place argument, such as father (of), foot (of), president (of). In manylanguages relational expressions differ syntactically and morphologically from nonrelationalexpressions, for example by having distinct possessive constructions (alienable vs inalienable possession).relational grammarModel of a universal grammar put forward by D.M.Perlmutter, P.M.Postal, andD.E.Johnson, among others, as an alternative to transformational grammar. A basic