linguistic relation

1. 1.

   a relation between linguistic forms or constituents

   Broaderrelation

   Narrowergrammatical relationsemantic relationhomonymy

Questions about linguistic relation

What does linguistic relation mean?

linguistic relation means "a relation between linguistic forms or constituents".

Is linguistic relation a common word?

linguistic relation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.