The Transitionality of Grammatical Meaning and Paradigmaticity of Grammatical Form in Modified Category

Abstract

According to the characteristics of grammatical forms,grammatical category can be divided into three categories:morphological category,distributional category and paradigmatic category.The modified category is a paradigmatic category.The two kinds of grammatical meaning in modified category——descriptive meaning and distinctive meaning are born by the same attributive constituent and showing a transitional change.The differences manifested by every contrast items of a connotational category in the appearance or not,quantity and mutual relations,can be seen as the grammatical form expressing descriptive meaning and distinctive meaning.