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syntactic category::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | grammatical category |
| Type of | category, class, family |
| Has types | grammatical gender, number, part of speech, participant role, person, semantic role, tense, case, word class, form class, gender, grammatical case |
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syntactic category
A syntactic category is a type of syntactic unit that theories of syntax assume.
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Inflection changes grammatical properties of a word within its syntactic category.
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Derivation can also form a semantically distinct word within the same syntactic category.
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In human languages, including English, number is a syntactic category, along with person and gender.
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Although derivational affixes do not necessarily alter the syntactic category, they do change the meaning of the base.
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Syntactic categories are defined by rules called productions, which specify the values that belong to a particular syntactic category.
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A derivational suffix usually applies to words of one syntactic category and changes them into words of another syntactic category.
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An adpositional phrase is a linguistics term defining a syntactic category that includes prepositional phrases and postpositional phrases.
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