Phrasal Category

A Phrasal Category is a Category associated with Linguistic Phrase.

• AKA: Linguistic Phrase Category.
• Example(s):
  • In English:
    • noun phrase.
    • Verb Phrase.
    • Adjective Phrase.
• See: Lexical Category, Natural Language Non-Terminal Symbol.

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References

• http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~billw/nlpdict.html#phrasalcat
  • A kind of non-terminal symbol of a grammar - a non-terminal determines a phrasal category if it cannot appear in a lexical insertion rule, that is, a rule of the form X → w, where [math]\displaystyle{ w }[/math] is a word. Examples include NP, VP, PP, ADJP, ADVP and S . Non-examples include N, V, ADJ, PREP, INTERJ, ADV (see lexical category).
  • Contrast with lexical category.

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