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form class vs syntactic category

syntactic category vs form class

form class and syntactic category both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
form class Yes No No No
syntactic category Yes No No No
As nouns, syntactic category is a hypernym of form class; that is, syntactic category is a word with a broader meaning than form class:
  • form class: one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context
  • syntactic category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Other hypernyms of form class include grammatical category.
form class (noun) syntactic category (noun)
one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Difference between form class and syntactic category

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