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'''Lexical category''' is the topmost level of the part of speech. It indicates the general morphological, syntactic and semantic behaviour of a lexical item.
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== Natural Language ==
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The UNL<sup>arium</sup> acknowledges 12 different lexical categories in natural languages:
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{{#tree:id=lex|openlevels=0|root=Lexical Categories|
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*[[adjectives]] (J): (adjectives and participles)
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*[[adpositions]] (P): (prepositions, postpositions, circumpositions)
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*[[adverbs]] (A): (specifier adverbs, adjunct adverbs, conjunts and disjuncts)
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*[[affixes]] (F): (prefixes, infixes, suffixes and circumfixes)
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*[[conjunctions]] (C): (subordinating and coordinating conjunctions)
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*[[determiners]] (D): (articles, quantifiers, possessives and demonstratives)
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*[[inflections]] (I): (auxiliary and modal verbs)
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*[[nouns]] (N): (common nouns and proper nouns)
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**proper nouns (E): (proper nouns)
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*[[numerals]] (U): (cardinal, ordinal, multiplicative, partitive, distributive)
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*[[pronouns]] (R): (demonstrative, personal, possessive, indefinite, interrogative, reflexive, reciprocal, relative, emphatic)
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*[[verbs]] (V): (full verb and copula)
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*[[others]] (O): (particles, classifiers, interjections)
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== UNL ==
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As UWs represent only open-class items, there are only four lexical categories in UNL:
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{{#tree:id=tagset|openlevels=0|root=Lexical Category (LEX)|
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**'''Adjectival UWs''' (J) designate attributes.
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**'''Adverbial UWs''' (A) designate circumstances.
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**'''Nominal UWs''' (N) designate things.
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**'''Verbal UWs''' (V) designate occurrence or performance of an action, or the existence of a state or condition.
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Latest revision as of 14:29, 29 October 2014

Lexical category is the topmost level of the part of speech. It indicates the general morphological, syntactic and semantic behaviour of a lexical item.

Natural Language

The UNLarium acknowledges 12 different lexical categories in natural languages:

UNL

As UWs represent only open-class items, there are only four lexical categories in UNL:

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