categorial en · ADJ
Meanings
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categorical, absolute, without exception
1990 : The urgency of feminism to establish a universal status for patriarchy in order to strengthen the appearance of feminism's own claims to be representative has occasionally motivated the shortcut to a categorial or fictive universality of the structures of domination, held to produce women's common subjugated experience. - Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
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categorical, pertaining to a category
So, there is considerable evidence in favour of drawing a categorial distinction between the preposition for and the complementiser for: they are different lexical items (i.e. words) belonging to different categories.
2004, Andrew Radford, Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 55:
- pertaining to categorial grammar
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most categorial | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more categorial | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
noncategorial · precategorial · categorially · transcategorial · subcategorial