Word Class

A Word Class is an abstract class for word forms with similar lexical properties.

• AKA: Word Type, Word Category, Lexical Type, Lexical Category.
• Context:
  • It can be (typically) defined by some set of Word Properties.
• Example(s):
  • a Morphosyntactic Class.
  • a Part-of-Speech Category.
  • a Grammatical Person Category.
  • Lexeme/Lexical Entry/Lexeme Lemma.
  • Dictionary Entry Headword,
  • Vocabulary Word,
  • Base Word,
  • Morphological Root.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Sentence Category.
  • a Paragraph Category.
• See: Lexical Entry.

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