 Ontological categories in natural language may be reflected in other ways in syntax than in syntactic categories, for example in syntactic positions. On the recent cartographic theory of syntax (Cinque &amp; Rizzi 2010), syntactic positions in a sentence or an NP are associated with a semantic content, which often amounts to an ontological category. For example different positions for adjectival modifiers in an NP are distinguished for modifiers of number, size, shape, and color.