Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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inanimacy | Yes | No | No | No |
syntactic category | Yes | No | No | No |
inanimacy (noun) | syntactic category (noun) |
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(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 |