Grammatical property

Grammatical properties are attributes of words or phrases that are expressed through grammar, particularly use of grammatical markers.

A word may possess a grammatical property but not be marked for that property. For example, most nouns have identical nominative and accusative cases, but they still possess case.

For English, the following properties exist:

For nouns:

• Grammatical number
• Finiteness
• Definiteness
• Grammatical case

For verbs:

• Tense
• Grammatical number
• Grammatical aspect (Aspect)
• Finiteness