Grammatical category

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. In Linguistics, the grammatical aspect of a Verb defines the temporal flow (or lack thereof in the described event or state In Grammar, the case of a Noun or Pronoun indicates its Grammatical function in a greater Phrase or Clause; such as the Grammatical mood is one of a set of distinctive Verb forms that are used to signal modality. In grammatical theory, definiteness is a feature of Noun phrases distinguishing between entities which are specific and identifiable in a given context (definite noun Animacy is a grammatical and/or Semantic category of Nouns based on how Sentient or alive the Referent of the noun is In Linguistics, evidentiality is broadly the indication of the nature of evidence for a given statement that is whether Evidence exists for the statement and/or In Linguistics, the term noun class refers to a system of categorizing Nouns A noun may belong to a given class because of characteristic features of its Referent In Linguistics, grammatical genders, sometimes also called Noun classes are classes of nouns reflected in the behavior of associated words every noun must belong In linguistics grammatical number is a Grammatical category of nouns pronouns and adjective and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one" Grammatical polarity is the distinction of affirmative and negative which indicates the truth or falsehood of a statement respectively Grammatical tense is a temporal linguistic quality expressing the time at during or over which a state or action denoted by a verb occurs In Linguistics, transitivity is a property of Verbs that relates to whether a verb can take Direct objects It is closely related to valency. In Grammar, the voice (also called gender or diathesis of a verb describes the relationship between the action (or state that the verb expresses and the participants identified Grammatical person, in Linguistics, is deictic reference to a participant in an event such as the speaker the Addressee, or others In Linguistics, a count noun (also countable noun) is a noun which can be modified by a Numeral and occur in both singular and Plural mass noun)

A grammatical category is a set of features which express related conceptual distinctions. In Linguistics, a mass noun (also uncountable noun or non-count noun) is a common Noun that presents entities as an unbounded mass The features in the same category are mutually exclusive, and often expressed in a similar way. They are often the subject of agreement constraints. In Languages agreement is a form of cross-reference between different parts of a sentence or phrase

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. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States

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What is a grammatical category? - SIL. org

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