Grammatical category
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| - | + | A '''grammatical category''' is an analytical class within the grammar of a language, whose members have the same syntactic distribution and recur as structural unit throughout the language, and which share a common property which can be semantic or syntactic | |
| - | In [[linguistics]], '''periphrasis''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] ''peri'' as a preposition means "around, about, beyond") is a device by which a [[grammatical category]] or grammatical relationship is expressed by a [[free morpheme]] (typically one or more [[function word]]s modifying a [[content word]]), instead of being shown by [[inflection]] or [[derivation (linguistics)|derivation]]. For example, the [[English language|English]] future tense is periphrastic: it is formed with an [[auxiliary verb]] (''shall'' or ''will'') followed by the base form of the main verb. Another example is the [[comparative]] and [[superlative]] forms of adjectives, when they are formed with the words ''more'' and ''most'' rather than with the [[suffix]]es ''-er'' and ''-est'': the forms ''more beautiful'' and ''most beautiful'' are periphrastic, while ''lovelier'' and ''loveliest'' are not. | + | |
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| - | Periphrasis is a characteristic of [[analytic language]]s, which tend to avoid inflection. Even [[synthetic language]]s, which are highly inflected, sometimes make use of periphrasis to fill out an inflectional paradigm that is missing certain forms. | + | |
| - | == See also == | + | |
| - | * [[Adposition]] | + | |
| - | * [[Analytic language]] | + | |
| - | * [[Compound verb]] | + | |
| - | * [[Deflexion (linguistics)]] | + | |
| - | * [[Grammatical particle]] | + | |
| - | * [[Phrase]] | + | |
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A grammatical category is an analytical class within the grammar of a language, whose members have the same syntactic distribution and recur as structural unit throughout the language, and which share a common property which can be semantic or syntactic
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