grammatical category

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Noun

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grammatical category (plural grammatical categories)

  1. (linguistics) Part of speech.
    • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 107:
      First, the AWL lacks part-of-speech information so does not allow users to see which vocabulary can be used for multiple grammatical categories nor which grammatical category is more frequent.