Reduplication is also the main device, if not the only one, which allows a word to change its syntactic category.

The term valence also refers to the syntactic category of these elements.

Each lexical item was also tagged with a syntactic category.

An alternative technique is to use syntactic categories rather than individual words as the states in the model.

By using syntactic categories there is no limit on the size of the lexicon used.

At least three criteria are used in defining syntactic categories:

In human languages, including English, number is a syntactic category, along with person and gender.

The relationship between syntactic category and coverage may then be expressed by Table 3.9.

There is a strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage.

The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information.