Lexical category

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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.

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