Editing Syntactic category (section)

==Lexical categories only==
[[Dependency grammar]]s do not acknowledge phrasal categories in the way that [[phrase structure grammar]]s do.<ref name=":0" /> What this means is that the interaction between lexical and phrasal categories disappears, the result being that only the lexical categories are acknowledged.<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 2000|title=A Grammar of English|url=https://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/314text/chap2.htm|website=Public ASU}}</ref> The tree representations are simpler because the number of nodes and categories is reduced, e.g.

::[[File:Syntactic category 2.jpg|Syntactic categories DG]]

The distinction between lexical and phrasal categories is absent here. The number of nodes is reduced by removing all nodes marked with "P". Note, however, that phrases can still be acknowledged insofar as any subtree that contains two or more words will qualify as a phrase.