= Government (linguistics)
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In linguistics, "government" refers to a grammatical relationship in which one lexical item (typically a verb, preposition, or adjective) controls or requires the syntactic form of another, often determining the case of a noun phrase or the form of a complement. This concept is particularly prominent in discussions of syntax and case theory. For example, in many languages, certain verbs require their objects to be in a specific case.
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