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Complementation

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

(linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts

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§1
(linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts
§2
the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate