categorial

[ kat-i-gawr-ee-uh l, -gohr- ]

/ ˌkæt ɪˈgɔr i əl, -ˈgoʊr- /

adjective Linguistics.

(in generative grammar) of or relating to the part of the base component that contains rules for establishing syntactic categories and ordering the elements within them.

Nearby words

catechol, catecholamine, catechu, catechumen, categorematic, categorial, categorial grammar, categoric contact, categorical, categorical imperative, categorist

Origin of categorial

category + -al¹; compare German categorial (1880) pertaining to categories in logic

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British Dictionary definitions for categorial

categorial

/ (ˌkætɪˈɡɔːrɪəl) /

adjective

of or relating to a category

logic (of a statement) consisting of a subject, S, and a predicate, P, each of which denotes a class, and having one of the following forms: all S are P (universal affirmative); some S are P (particular affirmative); some S are not P (particular negative); no S are P (universal negative)See syllogism

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