grammatical category
1Grammatical category — A grammatical category or functional category is a linguistic term encompassing, among other things: *Grammatical aspect *Grammatical case *Grammatical mood *Definiteness *Specificity *Animacy *Evidentiality *Noun class *Grammatical gender… …
2grammatical category — noun (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties • Syn: ↑syntactic category • Topics: ↑grammar • Hypernyms: ↑class, ↑category, ↑family …
3Grammatical number — Grammatical categories Animacy Aspect Case Clusivity Definiteness Degree of comparison Evidentiality Focus …
4Grammatical polarity — Grammatical categories Animacy Aspect Case Clusivity Definiteness Degree of comparison Evidentiality Focus …
5Transitivity (grammatical category) — In linguistics, transitivity is a property of verbs that relates to whether a verb can take direct objects. It is closely related to valency.Traditional grammar makes a binary distinction between transitive verbs such as throw , injure , kiss… …
6grammatical gender — noun 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 • Syn: ↑gender… …
7grammatical meaning — noun the meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence; varies with inflectional form • Hypernyms: ↑meaning, ↑significance, ↑signification, ↑import • Part Holonyms: ↑function word, ↑closed class word * * * …
8Grammatical relation — In linguistics, grammatical functions or (grammatical relations) refer to syntactic relationships between parts of speech such as subject , object , adjunct , complement . These are distinct from the semantic notions of agent and patient, as… …
9grammatical case — noun nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence • Syn: ↑case • Hypernyms: ↑grammatical category, ↑syntactic category • Hyponyms: ↑nominative, ↑nominative case, ↑ …
10Grammatical mood — Grammatical categories Animacy Aspect Case Clusivity Definiteness Degree of comparison Evidentiality Focus …
