grammatical category
analytical class within the grammar of a language
grammatical mood
grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality
grammatical aspect
grammatical category denoted by a verb
definiteness
feature of noun phrases and/or verbs, distinguishing between entities that are specific and identifiable in a given context and entities which are not (don't use on lexemes)
grammatical construction
any syntactic string of words ranging from sentences over phrasal structures to certain complex lexemes, such as phrasal verbs
noun class
particular classes of nouns, in linguistics
rational
grammatical category referring to those able to use logical thought rather than emotions to make decisions
grammatical number
use of grammar in a language to express number
conjugation
creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection
gnomic
grammatical feature used to express general truths or aphorisms
person
grammatical category
valency
the number of arguments controlled by a predicate
Semitic morphological pattern
morphological pattern in Semitic languages
numeral adjective
numeral which takes on the grammatical functions of an adjective
imperative
grammatical mood that expresses a command or request
topic
in linguistics, the known information in a phrase
part of speech
category of words based on shared grammatical properties in a clause
paradigm
grammatical category
negation
grammatical form that encodes negative polarity or falsity
markedness
state of standing out as unusual or difficult in comparison to a more common or regular form
honorific
social status and privilege as a grammatical function in many languages
Spanish prefixes
lexical and grammatical prefixes in the Spanish language
associated motion
grammatical category
derived stem
morphological feature of verbs in Semitic languages
case
grammatical category whose value reflects the grammatical function performed by a noun or pronoun in a phrase, clause, or sentence
degree of comparison
form of adjectives and adverbs
Finnish adverbial case
grammatical category in Finnish
numeral noun
numeral which functions as a noun grammatically
irrational
Inanimate or living organism without reasoning
tense
category that locates a situation in time, to indicate when the situation takes place
voice
grammatical category for verbs
focus
grammatical category
volition
linguistics
distributive numeral
word that answers "how many times each?"
distal
demonstrative in grammar
content word
word that name objects of reality and their qualities, e.g. living things, family members, natural phenomena, common actions, characteristics; mostly nouns (“dog”), lexical verbs (“eat”), adjectives (“happy”), and adverbs (“happily“)
transitivity
property of verbs that relates to whether a verb can take direct objects and how many such objects a verb can take
affirmation and negation
terms of opposite meaning which may be applied to statements, verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances
proximal
demonstrative in grammar