Linguistic categories
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Linguistic categories include
- Lexical category, a part of speech such as noun, preposition, etc.
- Syntactic category, a similar concept which can also include phrasal categories
- Grammatical category, a grammatical feature such as tense, gender, etc.
The definition of linguistic categories is a major concern of linguistic theory, and thus, the definition and naming of categories varies across different theoretical frameworks and grammatical traditions for different languages. The operationalization of linguistic categories in lexicography, computational linguistics, natural language processing, corpus linguistics, and terminology management typically requires resource-, problem- or application-specific definitions of linguistic categories. In Cognitive linguistics it has been argued that linguistic categories have a prototype structure like that of the categories of common words in a language.[1]