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Parts of speech: some theoretical models

Summary/Abstract: Parts of speech are a complex system in the language theory and in the grammatical descriptions of the language facts. In this article some general theoretical questions concerning parts of speech are discussed. The presupposition is that the synchronic-level theoretical description of the linguistic facts needs the diachronic-level description, too. Therefore, some parts of speech theories are discussed. In Aristotle's work On interpretation parts of speech are based upon the philosophical and logical comprehension of the parts of the utterance. The Grammar of Dionysius Thrax as the foundation of the European linguistic tradition describes eight parts of an utterance. These are: names, verbs, participles, articles, pronouns, prepositions, adverbs and conjunctions. The Grammaire générale et raisonnée of Port-Royal classifies the parts of speech as follows: the words which denote an object of the thought (nouns, articles, pronouns, participles, prepositions and adverbs) vs. the words which denote the form of the thoughts (verbs, conjunctions and interjections). G. Guillaume in Principes de linguistique théorique defines the parts of speech in the language psychosystematics with help of the particularization and generalization. While applying the conceptualist cognitive models, M. Kačić introduces a new, third articulation of the human language with the lexie as a minimal linguistic unit. It allows the possibility of the different classification of the parts of speech.

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