Exponents of grammatical categories often appear in the same position or " slot " in the word ( such as prefix, suffix or enclitic ).
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There is an inherent ambiguity : "-t " may denote more than one grammatical category : masculine, feminine, or neuter gender.
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Nouns have sometimes been defined in terms of the grammatical categories to which they are subject ( classed by gender, inflected for case and number ).
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It is often the case that the most common instance of a given grammatical category is unmarked, i . e . the corresponding affix is empty.
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Most of our grammatical categories, he explains, depend on meaning but we do not ask how the structures we use communicate meaning to us.
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Attitude ", a grammatical category which shows the state of mind of the speaker, and his attitude about the event spoken of in the verb.
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It is in this that the concentration on the use of the concrete particulars of the children s own writing scores over the vague generality of grammatical categories.
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In many such languages, the gender ( as a grammatical category ) of a noun is only tangentially related to the gender of the thing the noun represents.
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The elements in European languages indicating the information source are optional and usually do not indicate evidentiality as their primary function thus they do not form a grammatical category.
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They are endocentric because the one word in each case carries the bulk of the semantic content and determines the grammatical category to which the whole constituent will be assigned.
