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grammatical construction vs grammatical constituent

grammatical constituent vs grammatical construction

grammatical construction and grammatical constituent both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
grammatical construction Yes No No No
grammatical constituent Yes No No No
As nouns, grammatical constituent is a hypernym of grammatical construction; that is, grammatical constituent is a word with a broader meaning than grammatical construction:
  • grammatical construction: a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
  • grammatical constituent: (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction
Other hypernyms of grammatical construction include constituent.
grammatical construction (noun) grammatical constituent (noun)
a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction
Difference between grammatical construction and grammatical constituent

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