syntactic category
1Syntactic category — A syntactic category is either a phrasal category , such as noun phrase or verb phrase , which can be decomposed into smaller syntactic categories, or a lexical category , such as noun or verb , which cannot be further decomposed.The three… …
2syntactic category — noun (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties • Syn: ↑grammatical category • Topics: ↑grammar • Hypernyms: ↑class, ↑category, ↑family …
3Category theory — In mathematics, category theory deals in an abstract way with mathematical structures and relationships between them: it abstracts from sets and functions to objects and morphisms . Categories now appear in most branches of mathematics and in… …
4Lexical category — In grammar, a lexical category (also word class, lexical class, or in traditional grammar part of speech) is a linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items ), which is generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour …
5grammatical category — noun (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties • Syn: ↑syntactic category • Topics: ↑grammar • Hypernyms: ↑class, ↑category, ↑family …
6Empty category principle — In linguistics, the empty category principle (ECP) was proposed in Noam Chomsky s syntactic framework of government and binding theory. The ECP is supposed to be a universal syntactic constraint that requires traces to be properly governed.Proper …
7lexical category — noun A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as noun or verb. Syn: word class, lexical class, part of speech …
8Syntax — Syntactic redirects here. For another meaning of the adjective, see Syntaxis. For other uses, see Syntax (disambiguation). Linguistics …
9Metasyntax — A metasyntax describes the allowable structure and composition of phrases and sentences of a metalanguage, which is used to describe either a natural language or a computer programming language. Some of the widely used formal metalanguages for… …
10Araki language — language name=Araki states=Vanuatu region=Araki island, Espiritu Santo speakers=8 familycolor=Austronesian fam2=Malayo Polynesian fam3=Central Eastern fam4=Eastern fam5=Oceanic fam6=Central Eastern fam7=Remote Oceanic fam8=North and Central… …
