grammatical category

Noun
  1. referred to in: grammar - the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)
    is a type of: category, class, family - a collection of things sharing a common attribute
    subtypes:
    • case, grammatical case - nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
    • form class, part of speech, word class - one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context
    • number - the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural)
    • person - a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
    • gender, grammatical gender - a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
    • tense - a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
    • participant role, semantic role - (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause
    same as: syntactic category

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