Talk:Grammatical category

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[edit] help

this obviously needs help. – ishwar  (speak) 22:40, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] disambiguation page

I've added a disambiguation tag to this page. At the time I added it, the article consisted of no more than a skimpy definition of what a grammatical category might be, and a list of links to other articles that grammatical category might mean. That looks a lot like a disambiguation page to me.

I guess that if it's possible to distinguish the concept of grammatical categories from the things that this article links to, and build a proper encyclopedia article around it that consists of more than just a definition, then this will no longer be a disambiguation page. But at the moment, I think that trying to make other wikipedia articles which talk about grammatical categories more specific is the right thing to do. Squashy 09:56, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Countability?

Is countability a grammatical category? Although languages can have both countable and uncountable nouns, I haven't seen any examples of languages where individual nouns can be marked as countable or uncountable. If there are no examples of this, I don't think it meets the criteria for a grammatical category. —Umofomia (talk) 22:40, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

I think it is a semantic category, which has some repercussions on other forms in the sentence (agreement, classifiers, sortal plural). I agree that it is not in the textbook lists of grammatical categories. I will remove it for now. Jasy jatere (talk) 11:53, 10 March 2009 (UTC)