PARTS OF SPEECH. THE NOTIONAL PARTS OF SPEECH.
Keywords:
lexico-grammatical, purely grammatical meaning, semantic properties, morphological properties, function, structural,distributional.Abstract
A word in English is very often not marked morphologically. It makes it easy for words to pass from one class to another. Such words are treated as either lexico-semantic phonemes or as words belonging to one class. The problem which is closely connected with the selection of parts of speech is the problem of conversion. Main notional parts of speech are nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs. Members of these four classes are often connected derivationally. Functional parts of speech are prepositions, conjunctions, articles, interjections & particles.
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