categorial

[ kat-i-gawr-ee-uhl, -gohr- ]

adjective

, Linguistics.

1. of or relating to a categorial grammar.
2. (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.

categorial

/ ˌkætɪˈɡɔːrɪəl /

adjective

1. of or relating to a category
2. 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of categorial¹

category + -al ¹; compare German categorial (1880) pertaining to categories in logic