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gender vs syntactic category

syntactic category vs gender

gender and syntactic category both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
gender Yes No No No
syntactic category Yes No No No
As nouns, syntactic category is a hypernym of gender; that is, syntactic category is a word with a broader meaning than gender:
  • 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
  • syntactic category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Other hypernyms of gender include grammatical category.
gender (noun) syntactic category (noun)
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
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
Difference between gender and syntactic category

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