syntactic category

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syntactic category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties

grammar - the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)

grammatical case, case - nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence

form class, part of speech, word class - one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context

number - the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural); "in English the subject and the verb must agree in number"

person - a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party; "stop talking about yourself in the third person"

gender, grammatical gender - a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness

tense - a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

participant role, semantic role - (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause

category, class, family - a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents"

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syn--ul--ja son.NOM.SG son--EVAL--NOM.SG (ANIM; MASC; CLASS (ANIM; MASC; CLASS I) II) son' 'son (affect)' The data above prompt the following questions: (i) How can we account for a change in syntactic category and category features of the base (animacy, declension class and gender) when the evaluative suffixes attach?

Russian evaluative nominalizing suffixes and change in gender

In ten Hacken (2003), it is argued that the inputs to the formation process in (31) are Morphological Phrases, a combination of two words that does not have a syntactic distribution because it lacks a syntactic category. It should be noted that the phrases given as input in (31) contain inflectional material that is not realized in the output.

Adjectival non-heads and the limits of compounding

Rather, it is a deictic meaning in combination with the other properties, namely syntactic category (i.e.

The confusion is due to the fact that the abovementioned materials do not differentiate between the concept of a syntactic category (i.e., determinatives) and that of a syntactic function (i.e., specifier, head, modifier).

On determinatives and the category-function distinction: a reply to Brett Reynolds

with or without categorial relativism, adjectives and adverbs as one or as two categories) is not a central issue and the domain of the paper presented above as categorial space could be replaced by change of word-class or change of syntactic category between two (sub-)classes.

English '-ly' adverbs: from subject orientation to conversion

The leading dominants in this light are the linguistic elements such as the phonological structure, the syntactic category, the morphological structure, and the presence of semantically related words as Carroll has pointed out.

Different types of word links in the mental lexicon

In fact, the syntactic category of the base is irrelevant in present-day English.

Syntactic lexicalization as a new type of degrammaticalization

Moreover, all nouns, verbs, and adjectives in the dictionary are subscripted (as ".n," ".v," or ".a"), so in these cases the syntactic category of the word is made explicit.

A fully automatic question-answering system for intelligent search in e-learning documents

I incline toward the view that it is the syntactic category of the complement of the verb that determines which relation it contributes.

Designating propositions

* This information must specify [both] the syntactic category of the word and the categories of the phrases that it can take as complements.