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inanimacy vs grammatical category

grammatical category vs inanimacy

inanimacy and grammatical category both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
inanimacy Yes No No No
grammatical category Yes No No No
As nouns, grammatical category is a hypernym of inanimacy; that is, grammatical category is a word with a broader meaning than inanimacy:
  • inanimacy: (linguistics) The characteristic of a noun, in some languages, that is dependent on its unliving or non-sentient nature; this characteristic affects grammatical features (it can modify verbs used with the noun, affect the noun's declension etc).
  • grammatical category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Other hypernyms of inanimacy include syntactic category.
inanimacy (noun) grammatical category (noun)
(linguistics) The characteristic of a noun, in some languages, that is dependent on its unliving or non-sentient nature; this characteristic affects grammatical features (it can modify verbs used with the noun, affect the noun's declension etc). (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Difference between inanimacy and grammatical category

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