CATEGORIAL


Meaning of CATEGORIAL in English

/kat'i gawr"ee euhl, -gohr"-/ , adj. Ling.

1. of or pertaining to a categorial grammar.

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

[ CATEGORY + -AL 1 ; cf. G categorial (1880) pertaining to categories in logic ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .