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• Voice (in grammar)
  ...ng the [[semantic role]]s over [[grammatical relation]]s. The prototypical categories are [[active voice]] and [[passive voice]], but a few others have been adde ===Categories===
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• Syntactic category
  ...CATEGORIES. In fact, it would be safe to say that the nature of syntactic categories is at the very heart of grammar."'' (Croft 1991:36) ...ategories]] such as [[noun phrase]] and [[verb phrase]] are also syntactic categories.
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• Agree
  ...ctive categories eliminating the uninterpretable features activating these categories.
  361 bytes (43 words) - 16:58, 20 September 2014
• Mood
  ...[[verb]]s (mood, [[tense]], [[aspect]], and [[modality]]). The most common categories are associated with the way sentences are used: [[indicative]] (statement),
  605 bytes (82 words) - 19:07, 17 February 2009
• Morphosyntactic category
  ...e refer to the intersecting categories of the word...as '''morphosyntactic categories''' specifically."'' (Matthews 1974:66)
  1 KB (144 words) - 10:37, 20 June 2007
• Dimension
  ...exclusive'''. For instance, the English present and past tenses [...] are categories of the dimension 'tense'."'' (Haspelmath 2002:61)
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• Empty category
  ...hey are base-generated, viz. [[pro]] and [[PRO]]. Different types of empty categories behave differently with respect to the [[Empty category principle]] and [[b
  1 KB (149 words) - 16:49, 13 February 2009
• Category (system)
  ...e refer to the intersecting categories of the word...as '''morphosyntactic categories''' specifically."'' (Matthews 1974:66)
  1 KB (172 words) - 23:06, 28 June 2007
• Mixed category
  properties of two distinct categories, such as noun and verb, while being headed by a single word. Lefebvre, Claire & Muysken, Pieter 1988. ''Mixed categories: nominalizations in Quechua.'' Dordrecht: Kluwer.
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• Person
  ===Inflectional categories=== The term ''person'' and the names for the three main categories (first, second, third) go back to the ancient Greek grammarians.
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• Lexical category
  ...as [[adposition]]s, [[subordinator]]s, [[adverb]]s, etc., whereas lexical categories only comprise nouns, verbs and adjectives. Thus, ''lexical category'' is of Baker, Mark. 2003. ''Lexical categories: nouns, verbs and adjectives.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Covert category
  C]overt categories in English are e.g. [[mass noun|mass]] vs. [[count noun]], [[animacy]], [[s ...her languages as well, if we have the subtlety it takes to discover covert categories."'' (Fillmore 1968:3)
  1 KB (176 words) - 14:37, 2 July 2007
• Empty Category Principle
  ...-bound traces (i.e. NP-traces and variables), but not for pronominal empty categories like [[pro]] and [[PRO]].
  2 KB (225 words) - 16:48, 13 February 2009
• Portal:Tense and aspect
  == '''<div style="font-size:80%;">Temporal categories</div>''' == == '''<div style="font-size:80%;">Aspectual categories</div>''' ==
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• Functional projection
  ...whether there is a limit to the number of [[functional category|functional categories]]. It seems reasonable to assume that their projection is in some sense par * Ouhalla, J. 1990. ''Functional categories and parametric variation,'' diss. UCL.
  1 KB (148 words) - 13:17, 14 February 2009
• Gamma-marking
  ...ng in a non-argument position it is assumed to take place at [[LF]]. Empty categories that are not properly governed receive the feature [-gamma] by default. In
  921 bytes (131 words) - 22:31, 15 February 2009
• Number
  ===Inflectional categories===
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• Silverstein 1976
  ...ierarchy of features and ergativity. In: Dixon, R.M.W. (ed.) ''Grammatical categories in Australian languages.'' New Jersey: Humanities Press, 112-171.<noinclude
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• Category-system
  A '''category-system''' is a set of inflectional categories that have closely related meanings or functions and that generally do not c ...m for category-systems. Most linguists seem to call them simply [[category|categories]]. However, this term is also used for the individual "subcategories" (such
  1 KB (155 words) - 17:17, 3 February 2008
• GOLD
  ...r descriptive linguistics. It gives a formalized account of the most basic categories and relations used in the scientific description of human language.
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