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grammatical case vs syntactic category

syntactic category vs grammatical case

grammatical case and syntactic category both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
grammatical case Yes No No No
syntactic category Yes No No No
As nouns, syntactic category is a hypernym of grammatical case; that is, syntactic category is a word with a broader meaning than grammatical case:
  • grammatical case: nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
  • syntactic category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Other hypernyms of grammatical case include grammatical category.
grammatical case (noun) syntactic category (noun)
nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Difference between grammatical case and syntactic category

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