Grammatical category
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A grammatical category is a general term. It encompasses among other things:
- Grammatical aspect
- Grammatical case
- Grammatical mood
- Definiteness
- Specificity
- Animacy
- Evidentiality
- Noun class
- Grammatical gender
- Grammatical number
- Grammatical polarity
- Grammatical tense
- Transitivity
- Grammatical voice
- Grammatical person
- Countability (count noun vs. mass noun)
A grammatical category is a set of features which express related conceptual distinctions. The features in the same category are mutually exclusive, and often expressed in a similar way. They are often the subject of agreement constraints.
For example, in English, the grammatical number of a noun is either singular or plural, which is expressed by the absence or presence of the suffix -s.
[edit] References
- What is a grammatical category? - SIL.org
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