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participant role vs syntactic category

syntactic category vs participant role

participant role and syntactic category both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
participant role Yes No No No
syntactic category Yes No No No
As nouns, syntactic category is a hypernym of participant role; that is, syntactic 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
  • syntactic category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Other hypernyms of participant role include grammatical category.
participant role (noun) syntactic 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 syntactic category

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