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Lemma  selective category 
Categoria grammaticale  N 
Lingua  inglese 
Opera  Hockett (1958) 
Sinonimi   
Rinvii  gender (inglese)
inflectional category (inglese)  
Traduzioni   
Citazioni 

[...] Nouns ‘belong’ to a gender; some adjectives are ‘inflected’ for gender. For adjectives, then, gender is an inflectional category. For nouns, the genders are rather what we shall call ‘selective’ categories. [...] But selective categories do not invariably depend on inflectional ones.
- Hockett (1958), a pag.230

Some selective categories are very small, and come into play only in highly specific grammatical circumstances.
- Hockett (1958), a pag.231

 
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