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syntactic category vs participant role

participant role vs syntactic category

syntactic category and participant role both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
syntactic category Yes No No No
participant role Yes No No No
As nouns, participant role is a hyponym of syntactic category; that is, participant role is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than syntactic category:
  • syntactic category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
  • participant role: (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause
syntactic category (noun) participant role (noun)
(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause
Difference between syntactic category and participant role

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