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participant role vs grammatical category

grammatical category vs participant role

participant role and grammatical category both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
participant role Yes No No No
grammatical category Yes No No No
As nouns, grammatical category is a hypernym of participant role; that is, grammatical category is a word with a broader meaning than participant role:
  • participant role: (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause
  • grammatical category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Other hypernyms of participant role include syntactic category.
participant role (noun) grammatical category (noun)
(linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Difference between participant role and grammatical category

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