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Syntactic category

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. noun phrase, verb phrase, adpositional phrase, etc.) are also syntactic categories. Dependency…

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Syntactic category

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Avg. degree1.95
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Syntactic category → syntactic unit that theories of syntax assume

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