DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmagrammatical relationship
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaNida (1949)
TitoloMorphology. The descriptive analysis of words
Sinonimi 
Rinviigrammatical category (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

There are many grammatical categories which may be indicated by bound forms, e.g. tense, person, number, voice, mode. It is quite impossible to predict which part of speech will distinguish any particular category.
- Nida (1949), Pag. 166

The following list of categories is not complete, but it will provide some basis for understanding the range of meaning indicated by various grammatical forms. [...] 1. Possession [...] 2. Tangibility [...] 3. Identification [...] 4. Definite vs. indefinite [...] 5. Proper vs. common [...] 6. Number [...] 7. Location [...] 8. Size [...] 9. Value [...] 10. Causation [...] 11. Shape [...] 12. Animateness [...] 13. Gender [...] 14. Grammatical relationship [...] 15. Tense [...] 16. Aspect [...] 17. Voice [...] 18. Mode [...] 19. Persons [...] 20. Movement [...]
- Nida (1949), Pag. 166-169