syntactic category vs grammatical gender
grammatical gender vs syntactic categorysyntactic category and grammatical gender both are nouns.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| syntactic category | Yes | No | No | No |
| grammatical gender | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
grammatical gender is a hyponym of
syntactic category; that is, grammatical 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
- grammatical 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, gender, tense, participant role, semantic role, inanimacy.
| syntactic category (noun) | grammatical gender (noun) |
|---|---|
| (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties | 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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