other names · Added 9 October 2026
Syntactic category
Word classes, largely corresponding to traditional parts of speech
A syntactic category is a syntactic unit that theories of syntax assume. Word classes, largely corresponding to traditional parts of speech (e.g. noun, verb, adposition, etc.), are syntactic categories. In phrase structure grammars, the phrasal categories (e.g.
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