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In modern linguistics, parts of speech are defined as lexico-grammatical series of words
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which are discriminated on the basis of semantic, morphological and syntactic criteria.
- the semantic criterion presupposes the generalized categorical meaning,
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- the morphological criterion implies the specific inflectional (formchanging) and derivational (word-building ) features of a given part of
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- the syntactical criterion concerns the typical syntactic role, played by a given part of speech in a sentence.
notional parts of speech belong nouns, adjectives, numerals1, pronouns, verbs and
adverbs, while functional parts of speech are represented by determiners (articles), prepositions,
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a) a generalized, categorical meaning, i.e. semantically;
b) specific inflectional and derivational features, i.e. morphologically;
c) syntactic function in a sentence, i.e. syntactically.
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semantic features, all words are divided into three major families of words: lexical (i.e. content)
words, function words and insert words
Lexical (content) words can be used independently in a sentence, performing
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word classes or notional parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
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functions of a subject, object, predicate, attribute or adverbial modifier while function words
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Function words can be categorized in terms of parts of speech such as determiners (articles), prepositions, conjunctions and particles.