Grammatical category
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A grammatical category is a general term. It encompasses inter alia:
- Grammatical aspect
- Grammatical case
- Grammatical mood
- Definiteness
- Animacy
- Evidentiality
- Noun class
- Grammatical gender
- Grammatical number
- Grammatical polarity
- Tense
- Transitivity
- Grammatical voice
- Grammatical person
A grammatical category is a set of features which express related conceptual distinctions, and are often expressed in similar ways in a language. They are often the subject of agreement constraints.