Definition of Syntactic category

1. Noun. (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Syntactic Category

synperiplanar
synpetalous
synphilin
synroc
synrocs
synsacra
synsacral
synsacrum
synsacrums
synsedimentary
synsemantic
synsepalous
synset
synsets
syntactic
syntactic category (current term)
syntactic sugar
syntactical
syntactically
syntactically independent
syntactician
syntacticians
syntactics
syntagm
syntagma
syntagmas
syntagmata
syntagmatic
syntagmatically
syntagmeme

Literary usage of Syntactic category

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme by Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight (1999)
"The basic syntactic category in Micro-Scheme is the expression. (expression) —> (name) | (constant) | (conditional) | (abstraction) I (application) ..."

2. An Introduction to the Study of Language by Leonard Bloomfield (1914)
"Another syntactic category in English is that of strictly transitive verbs, that is, of verbs which demand expression of an object affected. ..."

3. Native Writings in Massachusett by Ives Goddard, Kathleen Joan Bragdon (1988)
"... is a syntactic category marked on animate nouns that can roughly be described as a secondary animate third person. The unmarked obviation category is ..."

4. First Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-1): Proceedings by D. K. Harman (1995)
"In particular, following word-for-word morphological analysis (resulting in a set of syntactic-category tags for each word encountered in a text), ..."

5. First Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-1): Proceedings by D. K. Harman (1995)
"... analysis (resulting in a set of syntactic-category tags for each word encountered in a text), the parser identifies the subsequences that form NPs. ..."

6. Trukese-English Dictionary by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"Each of these Trukese entries is accompanied in parentheses by indication of its syntactic category or part of speech and its tabu status. ..."

7. Text Retrieval Conference, 4thedited by D. K. Harman edited by D. K. Harman (1998)
"The parser grammar includes heuristics for syntactic category disambiguation. - Heuristic Associations (including short definition)? : No. ..."

8. Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme by Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight (1999)
"The basic syntactic category in Micro-Scheme is the expression. (expression) —> (name) | (constant) | (conditional) | (abstraction) I (application) ..."

9. An Introduction to the Study of Language by Leonard Bloomfield (1914)
"Another syntactic category in English is that of strictly transitive verbs, that is, of verbs which demand expression of an object affected. ..."

10. Native Writings in Massachusett by Ives Goddard, Kathleen Joan Bragdon (1988)
"... is a syntactic category marked on animate nouns that can roughly be described as a secondary animate third person. The unmarked obviation category is ..."

11. First Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-1): Proceedings by D. K. Harman (1995)
"In particular, following word-for-word morphological analysis (resulting in a set of syntactic-category tags for each word encountered in a text), ..."

12. First Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-1): Proceedings by D. K. Harman (1995)
"... analysis (resulting in a set of syntactic-category tags for each word encountered in a text), the parser identifies the subsequences that form NPs. ..."

13. Trukese-English Dictionary by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"Each of these Trukese entries is accompanied in parentheses by indication of its syntactic category or part of speech and its tabu status. ..."

14. Text Retrieval Conference, 4thedited by D. K. Harman edited by D. K. Harman (1998)
"The parser grammar includes heuristics for syntactic category disambiguation. - Heuristic Associations (including short definition)? : No. ..."

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