syntactic category

/sɪnˌtæktɪk ˌkædəˈgɔri/

Definitions of syntactic category

1. noun

   (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
   synonyms: grammatical category

   types:

   case, grammatical case

   nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence

   form class, part of speech, word class

   one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context

   number

   the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural)

   person

   a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party

   gender, grammatical gender

   a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness

   tense

   a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

   participant role, semantic role

   (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause

   nominative, nominative case, subject case

   the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb

   oblique, oblique case

   any grammatical case other than the nominative

   major form class

   any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar

   first person

   pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur

   second person

   pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur

   third person

   pronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occur

   feminine

   a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female

   masculine

   a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male

   neuter

   a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)

   present, present tense

   a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking

   aorist

   a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation

   past, past tense

   a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past

   future, future tense

   a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future

   affected role, patient, patient role

   the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

   agent, agentive role

   the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

   benefactive role, beneficiary

   the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

   instrument, instrumental role

   the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process

   locative, locative role

   the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb

   recipient, recipient role

   the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

   result, resultant role

   the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause

   temporal, temporal role

   the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb

   continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive, progressive tense

   a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

   perfect, perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense

   a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

   type of:

   category, class, family

   a collection of things sharing a common attribute