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  1. Empty category: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Empty Category, Empty category: Lexicon of Linguistics

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  1. empty category: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wikipedia (Empty category)

noun:  In linguistics, an empty category, which may also be referred to as a covert category, is an element in the study of syntax that does not have any phonological content and is therefore unpronounced.


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