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semantic role vs grammatical category

grammatical category vs semantic role

semantic role and grammatical category both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
semantic role Yes No No No
grammatical category Yes No No No
As nouns, grammatical category is a hypernym of semantic role; that is, grammatical category is a word with a broader meaning than semantic role:
  • semantic 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 semantic role include syntactic category.
semantic 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 semantic role and grammatical category

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