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"grammatical category" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it whenever you are referring to a category used to describe words or other elements in a language's grammar. For example, "Verbs are a crucial grammatical category in English."
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An agglutinating language (e.g., Turkish) is one in which the word forms can be segmented into morphs, each of which represents a single grammatical category.
The morphology of the verb is especially complex, though few of the languages have personal endings marking agreement in person and number with the subject of the verb, and there is no grammatical category of mood.
The Navajo fourth person is a grammatical category that enables the speaker to address someone who is present or within hearing distance without naming him or her; because names are thought to have power, the polite form avoids speaking another's name.
He applies this to the definition of grammatical category.
Conversion is a common grammatical possibility, whereby a member of a grammatical category is used in the morphosyntactic environment characteristic of another grammatical category.
The input word is not changed: it is lifted to a 'higher' grammatical category.
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The call to develop work in this area can be traced back to Halliday's 1961 paper, where he put forward the ground-breaking idea that "the 'lexical item,' is unrestricted grammatically; grammatical categories do not apply to it, and the abstraction of the item itself from a number of occurrences … depends on the formal, lexical relations into which it enters" (1961 277).
The major grammatical categories are nouns and verbs.
Grammatical categories such as case, number, person, and tense are denoted with suffixes.
They claimed that common elements of thought could be discerned in grammatical categories of all languages.
The grammatical categories of Albanian are much like those of other European languages.
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