Lexical category

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== Natural Language ==
 
== Natural Language ==
The UNL<sup>arium</sup> acknowledges 11 different lexical categories in natural languages:
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The UNL<sup>arium</sup> acknowledges 12 different lexical categories in natural languages:
  
 
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*[[adpositions]] (P): (prepositions, postpositions, circumpositions)
 
*[[adpositions]] (P): (prepositions, postpositions, circumpositions)
 
*[[adverbs]] (A): (specifier adverbs, adjunct adverbs, conjunts and disjuncts)
 
*[[adverbs]] (A): (specifier adverbs, adjunct adverbs, conjunts and disjuncts)
*[[affixes]] (I): (prefixes, infixes, suffixes and circumfixes)
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*[[affixes]] (F): (prefixes, infixes, suffixes and circumfixes)
 
*[[conjunctions]] (C): (subordinating and coordinating conjunctions)
 
*[[conjunctions]] (C): (subordinating and coordinating conjunctions)
 
*[[determiners]] (D): (articles, quantifiers, possessives and demonstratives)
 
*[[determiners]] (D): (articles, quantifiers, possessives and demonstratives)
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*[[inflections]] (I): (auxiliary and modal verbs)
 
*[[nouns]] (N): (common nouns and proper nouns)
 
*[[nouns]] (N): (common nouns and proper nouns)
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**proper nouns (E): (proper nouns)
 
*[[numerals]] (U): (cardinal, ordinal, multiplicative, partitive, distributive)
 
*[[numerals]] (U): (cardinal, ordinal, multiplicative, partitive, distributive)
 
*[[pronouns]] (R): (demonstrative, personal, possessive, indefinite, interrogative, reflexive, reciprocal, relative, emphatic)
 
*[[pronouns]] (R): (demonstrative, personal, possessive, indefinite, interrogative, reflexive, reciprocal, relative, emphatic)
*[[verbs]] (V): (full verb, auxiliary, modal, copula)
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*[[verbs]] (V): (full verb and copula)
 
*[[others]] (O): (particles, classifiers, interjections)
 
*[[others]] (O): (particles, classifiers, interjections)
 
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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:

Software