Lexical Category (definition)

Lexical Categories express the contentful (rather than grammatical) information in a sentence. Lexical categories include [[Noun (definition)]nouns]], verbs, adjectives and adverbs.

See Also

• Functional Category (definition)
• Part of Speech (definition)
• Open Class (definition)
• Closed Class (definition)
• Noun (definition)
• Verb (definition)
• Adjective (definition)
• Adverb (definition)

External Links

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_category
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_category

References

• Carnie, A. (2013) Syntax: A Generative Introduction. 3rd Edition. Wiley Blackwell.