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A grammatical category or functional category is a linguistic term encompassing, among other things:

A grammatical category is a set of features which express related conceptual distinctions of grammatical function. The features in the same category are mutually exclusive, often expressed in a formally similar way, and may be subject to agreement constraints.

For example, in English, the grammatical number of a noun such as bird in:

The bird sing-s.
The bird-s sing.

is either singular or plural, which is expressed overtly by the absence or presence of the suffix -s, and is constrained by the grammatical number in sing-s singular and sing plural.

The list of all overtly expressed categories in a language constitute the functional items of that language, as opposed to its lexical items.

References

What is a grammatical category? - SIL.org

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+A '''grammatical category''' or '''functional category''' is a linguistic term encompassing, among other things:
-'''Embūte''' is a village in the [[Liepāja District]] of [[Latvia]]. Outside the village is a former [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] jet fighter base that was built in the 1960s. The facility included a full size run-way. Today the hangers still exists.
+*[[Grammatical aspect]]
+*[[Grammatical case]]
+*[[Grammatical mood]]
+*[[Definiteness]]
+*[[Specificity]]
+*[[Animacy]]
+*[[Evidentiality]]
+*[[Noun class]]
+*[[Grammatical gender]]
+*[[Grammatical number]]
+*[[Grammatical polarity]]
+*[[Grammatical tense]]
+*[[Transitivity (grammatical category)|Transitivity]]
+*[[Grammatical voice]]
+*[[Grammatical person]]
+* Countability ([[count noun]] vs. [[mass noun]])
+A grammatical category is a set of features which express related conceptual distinctions of [[grammatical function]].  The features in the same category are mutually exclusive, often expressed in a formally similar way, and may be subject to [[agreement (linguistics)|agreement constraints]].
-==External links==
-* [http://greyisgood.eu/blog/83 Photographs of the site in 2007]
+For example, in [[English language|English]], the [[grammatical number]] of a [[noun]] such as ''bird'' in:
-{{Latvia-geo-stub}}
+* The bird sing-s.
-{{coord missing|Latvia}}
+* The bird-s sing.
+is either singular or plural, which is expressed overtly by the absence or presence of the suffix ''-s'', and is constrained by the grammatical number in ''sing-s'' singular and ''sing'' plural.
-[[Category:Soviet Air Force bases]]
-[[Category:Soviet Anti-Air Defense]]
+The list of all overtly expressed categories in a language constitute the functional items of that language, as opposed to its [[lexical items]].
-[[Category:Military of Latvia]]
+== References ==
+* [http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOflinguisticTerms/WhatIsAGrammaticalCategory.htm What is a grammatical category?] - SIL.org
+== See also ==
+* [[Grammatical function]]
+* [[Agreement (linguistics)|Agreement]]
+* [[Inflection]]
+* [[Syntax]]
+{{disambig}}
+[[Category:Grammar]]
+[[Category:Syntax]]
+[[Category:Semantics]]
+[[et:Grammatiline kategooria]]
+[[ja:文法範疇]]
+[[no:Grammatisk kategori]]
+[[nn:Grammatisk kategori]]
+[[sv:Grammatisk kategori]]
+[[ru:Грамматическая категория]]
+[[zh:语法范畴]]