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The traditional set of eight word classes: Noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, pronoun, and interjection.
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Given all the languages that have ever existed, is there a limit for different parts of speech?
I was told here several times, that a part of speech is not universal, but specific for each language as much as the A,T,C and G's are in everyone's genome.
Nethertheless, occasionally the same terms …
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Do all languages have the same set of grammatical relations?
As for parts of speech, I am quite sure it is not the case.
For instance, some languages are problematic in separating clearly verbs from adjectives like Japanese and Korean, some native American lan …
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Does each word category have a corresponding phrase category?
The word category noun has a corresponding phrase category noun phrase, adverb has adverb phrase, noun has noun phrase
Other word categories like, for instance, determiners and quantifiers seem to m …
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What is the idea behind calling the adverb the garbage can of words?
As chance would have it, I came across three unrelated persons each describing the adverb as the
the garbage can among the word classes.
It happened in Germany and the original wording was:
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