categorial
Americanadjective
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of or relating to a categorial grammar.
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(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.
adjective
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of or relating to a category
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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
Etymology
Origin of categorial
category + -al 1; compare German categorial (1880) pertaining to categories in logic
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