Lexical category
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| − | * | + | *[[adjectives]] (J): (adjectives and participles) |
| − | * | + | *[[adpositions]] (P): (prepositions, postpositions, circumpositions) |
| − | * | + | *[[adverbs]] (A): (specifier adverbs, adjunct adverbs, conjunts and disjuncts) |
| − | * | + | *[[affixes]] (I): (prefixes, infixes, suffixes and circumfixes) |
| − | * | + | *[[conjunctions]] (C): (subordinating and coordinating conjunctions) |
| − | * | + | *[[determiners]] (D): (articles, quantifiers, possessives and demonstratives) |
| − | * | + | *[[nouns]] (N): (common nouns and proper nouns) |
| − | * | + | *[[numerals]] (U): (cardinal, ordinal, multiplicative, partitive, distributive) |
| − | * | + | *[[pronouns]] (R): (demonstrative, personal, possessive, indefinite, interrogative, reflexive, reciprocal, relative, emphatic) |
| − | * | + | *[[verbs]] (V): (full verb, auxiliary, modal, copula) |
| − | * | + | *[[others]] (O): (particles, classifiers, interjections) |
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Revision as of 12:54, 20 May 2010
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 11 different lexical categories in natural languages:
UNL
As UWs represent only open-class items, there are only four lexical categories in UNL:
