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semantic role vs syntactic category

syntactic category vs semantic role

semantic role and syntactic category both are nouns.

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

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