Morphological category
The term morphological category refers to all those grammatical categories that are expressed morphologically, i.e. through morphemes , and not through other grammatical means. In German these are mainly the inflection categories case , gender , number , person , tense , mode . But also the increase ( comparison ) with its levels positive , comparative and superlative belongs to most authors. In addition, derivation / come Derivations categories as diminutive .
There are grammatical categories that are expressed morphologically in one language but with different means in another. This includes the so-called genus verbi , i.e. the contrast between active and passive , which z. B. is expressed in Latin by inflection of the verbs, but in German requires a syntactic construction of auxiliary verb + participle; Genus verbi is a grammatical, but not a morphological category in German.
