| Lemma | selective category |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Hockett (1958) |
| Titolo | A Course in Modern Linguistics |
| 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. Some selective categories are very small, and come into play only in highly specific grammatical circumstances. |