Grammatical categories

grammatical category

the number of arguments controlled by a predicate

property of verbs that relates to whether a verb can take direct objects and how many such objects a verb can take

analytical class within the grammar of a language

in semantics, thematic relation that refers to the cause or initiator (often intentional) of an event

thumb|300px|Sets of reference: Inclusive form (left) and exclusive form (right) In linguistics, clusivity is a grammatical distinction between inclusive and exclusive first-person pronouns and verbal morphology, also called inclusive "we" and exclusive "we". Inclusive "we" specifically includes the addressee, while exclusive "we" specifically excludes the addressee; in other words, two (or more) words that both translate to "we", one meaning "you and I, and possibly someone else", the other meaning "I and some other person or persons, but not you". While imagining that this sort of distinction

In linguistics, definiteness is a semantic feature of noun phrases that distinguishes between referents or senses that are identifiable in a given context (definite noun phrases) and those that are not (indefinite noun phrases). The prototypical definite noun phrase picks out a unique, familiar, specific referent such as the sun or Australia, as opposed to indefinite examples like an idea or some fish.

grammatical category

terms of opposite meaning which may be applied to statements, verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances

Within linguistics, obviative (abbreviated ) third person is a grammatical-person marking that distinguishes a referent that is less important to the discourse from one that is more important (proximate). The obviative is sometimes referred to as the "fourth person".

in linguistics, a type of possession in which a noun is obligatorily possessed by a possessor; e.g. “hand” or “mother” implies someone’s hand or mother; in English, “father of Mary” is acceptable (because inalienable), but “squirrel of Mary” is not