Lexical category
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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]] ( | + | *[[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) | ||
| + | *[[inflections]] (I): (auxiliary and modal verbs) | ||
*[[nouns]] (N): (common nouns and proper nouns) | *[[nouns]] (N): (common nouns and 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 | + | *[[verbs]] (V): (full verb and copula) |
*[[others]] (O): (particles, classifiers, interjections) | *[[others]] (O): (particles, classifiers, interjections) | ||
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Revision as of 11:02, 15 October 2012
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:
