单词 | grammatical category |
释义 | grammatical category (once / 909178 pages) n WORD FAMILY grammatical category: grammatical categories USAGE EXAMPLESPart of speech taggers identify which grammatical category a word belongs to, depending on how it is being used in context. Scientific American(Nov 26, 2012) The words are not yet fixed in grammatical categories. Brinton, Daniel Garrison, The Philosophic Grammar of American...(2011) Its grammatical categories, its spelling, its logic seem hopelessly irrational. Edman, Irwin, Human Traits and their Social Signi...(2010) n (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties Syn|Hypo|Hyper syntactic category case, grammatical case nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence form class, part of speech, word classone of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context numberthe grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural) persona grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party gender, grammatical gendera grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness tensea grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time participant role, semantic role(linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause nominative, nominative case, subject casethe category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb oblique, oblique caseany grammatical case other than the nominative major form classany of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar first personpronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur second personpronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur third personpronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occur femininea gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female masculinea gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male neutera gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine) present, present tensea verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking aorista verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation past, past tensea verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past future, future tensea verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future affected role, patient, patient rolethe semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause agent, agentive rolethe semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause benefactive role, beneficiarythe semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause instrument, instrumental rolethe semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process locative, locative rolethe semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb recipient, recipient rolethe semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause result, resultant rolethe semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause temporal, temporal rolethe semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive, progressive tensea tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going perfect, perfect tense, perfective, perfective tensea tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) category, class, family a collection of things sharing a common attribute |
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