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categorial: Meaning and Definition of

cat•e•go•ri•al

Pronunciation: (kat"i-gôr'ē-ul, -gōr'-), [key]
— 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.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
See also:
categorematic categorial grammar
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