NOUN AND ITS GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES
Keywords:
grammatical category, number, case mood, gender, person, tense, aspect, degree,voice.Abstract
This article investigates linguistics; in linguistics, a grammatical category or grammatical feature is a property of items within the grammar of a language. Within each category there are two or more possible values (sometimes called grammemes), which are normally mutually exclusive. Another way to define a grammatical category is as a category that expresses meanings from a single conceptual domain, contrasts with other such categories, and is expressed through formally similar expressions. Another definition distinguishes grammatical categories from lexical categories, such that the elements in a grammatical category have a common grammatical meaning – that is, they are part of the language's grammatical structure.
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