syntactic category vs semantic role
semantic role vs syntactic categorysyntactic category and semantic role both are nouns.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| syntactic category | Yes | No | No | No |
| semantic role | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
semantic role is a hyponym of
syntactic category; that is, semantic 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
- semantic role: (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause
Other hyponyms of syntactic category include
case, grammatical case, form class, part of speech, word class, number, person, gender, grammatical gender, tense, participant role, inanimacy.
| syntactic category (noun) | semantic 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 |
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