Lexical category

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 UNL^arium acknowledges 11 different lexical categories in natural languages:

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• adjectives (J): (adjectives and participles)
• adpositions (P): (prepositions, postpositions, circumpositions)
• adverbs (A): (specifier adverbs, adjunct adverbs, conjunts and disjuncts)
• affixes (I): (prefixes, infixes, suffixes and circumfixes)
• conjunctions (C): (subordinating and coordinating conjunctions)
• determiners (D): (articles, quantifiers, possessives and demonstratives)
• nouns (N): (common nouns and proper nouns)
• numerals (U): (cardinal, ordinal, multiplicative, partitive, distributive)
• pronouns (R): (demonstrative, personal, possessive, indefinite, interrogative, reflexive, reciprocal, relative, emphatic)
• verbs (V): (full verb, auxiliary, modal, copula)
• others (O): (particles, classifiers, interjections)

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UNL

As UWs represent only open-class items, there are only four lexical categories in UNL: {{#tree:id=tagset|openlevels=0|root=Lexical Category (LEX)|

• • Adjectival UWs (J) designate attributes.
  • Adverbial UWs (A) designate circumstances.
  • Nominal UWs (N) designate things.
  • Verbal UWs (V) designate occurrence or performance of an action, or the existence of a state or condition.

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