syntactic category vs gender
gender vs syntactic categorysyntactic category and gender both are nouns.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| syntactic category | Yes | No | No | No |
| gender | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
gender is a hyponym of
syntactic category; that is, gender is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
syntactic category:
- syntactic category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
- gender: a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
Other hyponyms of syntactic category include
case, grammatical case, form class, part of speech, word class, number, person, grammatical gender, tense, participant role, semantic role, inanimacy.
| syntactic category (noun) | gender (noun) |
|---|---|
| (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties | the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles |
| a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness |
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