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rection Gram.|ˈrɛkʃən| [ad. L. rectiōn-em government, f. regĕre to rule: see rector.] Syntactical government; regimen.
a1637B. Jonson Eng. Gram. ii. vii, Now as before in two articles a and the, the whole construction of the Latins was contained; so their whole rection is by prepositions near⁓hand declared. 1673O. Walker Educ. 131 Which is easily known by the rection of the parts of his Sentence. 1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue xi. 513 Rection, though not necessarily connected with flexion, has ever been found as its close companion and ally. 1953[see intraverbal s.v. intra-1]. 1968J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Linguistics vi. 241 Concord..is usually distinguished from government (or ‘rection’, in the usage of some authors). Hence ˈrectional a.
1938Trans. Philol. Soc. 115 Where..a given declension implies a given gender, the inflexion may be said to express a rectional category in addition to the categories of case and number. 1949Archivum Linguisticum I. ii. 167 Notionally noun compounds are either attributive or rectional (governing). |