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Word Classes, Modern
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The words of a language can be grouped into the so-called word classes, also known as lexical categories or parts of speech, as e.g., “noun” and “verb”. Word classes group words together according to a number of shared phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties (Kaltz 2000; Anward 2006).

The traditional word classes of the …

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Bianca BASCIANO, “Word Classes, Modern”, in: Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, General Editor Rint Sybesma. Consulted online on 02 October 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2210-7363_ecll_COM_00000454>
First published online: 2015



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