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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) | ||
}} | }} | ||
Revision as of 11:54, 20 May 2010
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 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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