The traditional set of eight word classes: Noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, pronoun, and interjection.
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Turn Penn Treebank into simpler POS tags
I'm working on some code for an open source package to analyze dialogic classroom transcripts. I came across an interesting article that calculates a formality measure that I wanted to try out (LINK) as it may help my field (literacy) understand…
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What part of speech is "quiet" in "And quiet flows the Don"?
The Mikhail Sholokov novel "Тихий Дон" (Quiet Don) is translated "And quiet flows the Don". In this title, is the word "quiet" an adjective or adverb?
If it's an adverb modifying the verb "flows", why doesn't it take the normal adverb form…
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What part of speech is "city of", "university of", "county of"?
Is there a name for the phrases "city of", "university of", "county of", etc?
As in, City of New York, University of Florida, County of Cork.
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Parts of speech in a language
I am starting studying linguistics independently. I have a few basic doubts.
English has following types of words: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection.
It seems that this is capable of describing…
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Buy one free one
In Malaysia it’s common to see “buy one free one” offers in supermarkets, pharmacies etc. I’m a speaker of British English and this construction hurts my ears, but apparently it’s perfectly idiomatic in Malaysian English. I think it’s understood as…
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Literature on contemporaneous analyses of languages that pre-date or are not influenced by Aristotle's "Categories" and the grammatici
Does anyone know of literature on contemporaneous analyses of languages that pre-date or are not influenced by Aristotle's "Categories" and the grammatici? For example, did the Chinese analyze Chinese on its own terms? Re. Sanskrit I've found only:…
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What category is because?
sorry if this seems really basic!
I am stuck on what to name 'because' in the syntax tree I am drawing, which is for the sentence:
'The boy gave Alice a present because he likes her'.
I initially thought that it would be a CP but also considered…
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What part of speech is 'echoes' when not a noun plural?
For example in the sentence: "I will say it loud enough so that it echoes"
What part of speech is 'echoes'? Would it become a verb or an adverb?
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