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Grammatical Category
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Grammatical Category 

(1) A class of mutually exclusive grammatical meanings opposed to each other according to some common feature; for example, the meanings “singular” and “plural” form the grammatical category of “number.” A paradigm (or series of paradigms) corresponds to each grammatical category.

(2) The term “grammatical category” is sometimes used to designate lexical-grammatical word classes (for example, in Russian the grammatical category “verb” has the grammatical categories of voice, aspect, mood, tense, person, number, and gender).
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Middle English second person pronoun forms Table 1 presents the properties and exponents of the grammatical categories of case and number in the second person pronoun paradigm, found in authoritative historical grammars and monographs, including, for example, Mosse (1952: 54), Mustanoja (1960: 124-125), Welna (1996: 101), Barber (1997: 152), Gorlach (1978: 106-107), Franz (1939: 258-60), Carstensen (1959: 190-191), and Kerkhof(1966: 135-139).
Evidence for morphological restructuring in the second person pronoun ... by Rutkowska, Hanna / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
Although Chomskyan types of ideas concerning formal and/or functional grammatical categories (Pinker, 1994) are less accepted in the sense that their supposed genetic origins and cerebral underpinnings remain as mysterious as they were when first proposed (Tomasello, 1995; Rondal, 2006a), they can not be completely ruled out on the basis of the available information.
Maternal speech to children with Down Syndrome: an update by Rondal, Jean-Adolphe; Docquier, Laurence / The Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis
The problems in vocabulary selection have been dealt with over the centuries, but only in recent decades has the realization come that grammatical categories, both obligatory and optional ones, control the direction that the message takes.
Comments responding to Probert's "law talk and words consciousness" by Read, Allen Walker / ETC.: A Review of
 
 
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