I've been reading my Portuguese high-school book searching for some classification and hierarchization of parts of speech. My book brings me such features in a chapter dedicated to morphology, first I thought I needed to find about morphology, but the given Wikipedia article says that morphology has way more features than parts of speech and I'm specifically interested in parts of speech.
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2It really depends on what you mean by "part of speech". There are several approaches, and a long history. And no agreement at all, except that it's a complicated topic. – jlawler Mar 15 '14 at 23:00
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I have found this. It naively describes some classes. Anyway, I'd like to get introduced into this topic. – Red Banana Mar 15 '14 at 23:05
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1Probably McCawley 1998, then, since syntactic categories (the technical name) are a principal focus of the book, along with English syntax. However, be aware that different languages have different sets of syntactic categories, and different uses for them. There are a lot of different ways to organize them. – jlawler Mar 15 '14 at 23:14
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@jlawler Can you add a little more on these different ways? Any recommendation? – Red Banana Mar 15 '14 at 23:44
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1Read Donatus, then update from Latin[ca 350] to English[2014]? – jlawler Mar 16 '14 at 01:13
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1Or have a look at Schachter and Shopen 2007 'Parts of speech systems', here – Gaston Ümlaut Mar 17 '14 at 01:31
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@jlawler I thought you were trolling me. – Red Banana Mar 17 '14 at 02:31
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@PristineKavalostka: That's all right; think nothing of it. I'm not responsible for what you think of me, and vice versa. – jlawler Mar 17 '14 at 03:04