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*[[part of speech]], [[word class]], [[syntactic category]] (but these terms are somewhat wider)
 
*[[part of speech]], [[word class]], [[syntactic category]] (but these terms are somewhat wider)
 
*[[major category]] (as opposed to minor category)
 
*[[major category]] (as opposed to minor category)
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===Reference===
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Baker, Mark. 2003. ''Lexical categories: nouns, verbs and adjectives.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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=== Link ===
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[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Lexical+category&lemmacode=602 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
  
 
===Other languages===
 
===Other languages===
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Latest revision as of 18:18, 12 July 2014

The term lexical category is sometimes used for the major parts of speech noun, verb and adjective. It is not a perfect synonym of the terms part of speech/word class, because these terms also comprise minor categories (or functional categories) such as adpositions, subordinators, adverbs, etc., whereas lexical categories only comprise nouns, verbs and adjectives. Thus, lexical category is often contrasted with functional category, epecially in the generative tradition.

Synonyms

Reference

Baker, Mark. 2003. Lexical categories: nouns, verbs and adjectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

Other languages

German lexikalische Kategorie