The term "'valence "'also refers to the syntactic category of these elements.
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They seem to straddle two syntactic categories : they can function as non-finite verbs or as nouns.
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Several scholars have found faults with the dictionary's treatment of parts-of-speech and syntactic categories.
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Word classes considered as syntactic categories may be called " lexical categories ", as distinct from phrasal categories.
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This shows that children are sensitive to different syntactic categories and can use their observations of syntax to infer word meaning.
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There are arguments that determiners are not a part of Universal Grammar and are instead part of an emergent syntactic category.
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Syntactic categories that alone are not capable of combining with each other can be immediately unified by a translative that effects transfer.
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The node labels in the two trees mark the syntactic category of the different constituents, or word elements, of the sentence.
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The child does not possess, however, an innate knowledge of how syntactic categories are expressed in the language they are acquiring.
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The central idea of these theories is that language development occurs through the incremental acquisition of meaningful syntactic categories and the acquisition of phonological knowledge.