Lexical category
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*[[inflections]] (I): (auxiliary and modal verbs) | *[[inflections]] (I): (auxiliary and modal verbs) | ||
*[[nouns]] (N): (common nouns and proper nouns) | *[[nouns]] (N): (common nouns and proper nouns) | ||
| + | **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) | ||
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:
