What is a grammatical category? |
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A grammatical category is a set of syntactic features that | |
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Discussion | |
The term ‘grammatical category’ has been used to cover a wide variety of things, including what traditional grammars call "parts of speech." |
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Crystal 1985 43–44 | |
Bybee 1985 191 |
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