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empty category
A noun phrase is a group of words that acts like a noun in a sentence or phrase (e.g., un je ne sais quoi).
a. la catégorie vide (F)
(f) means that a noun is feminine. French nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la dame or la lune) or masculine (like l'homme or le soleil).
This syntactic analysis includes an empty category in subject position.Cette analyse syntaxique comporte une catégorie vide en position de sujet.
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