Part 3.3. Parts-of-speech theory Notional and functional parts of speech Parts of speech in different languages parts of speech

Semantic characteristics Formal characteristics

Part-of-speech meaning

Notional parts of speech:

• Nouns

• Adjectives

• Numerals

• Verbs

• Adverbs

Functional parts of speech:

• Prepositions

• Conjunctions

• Articles

• Particles

Morphological

(grammatical categories)

Syntactic

- part of

a sentence

- modifies X

- is modified

by Y

Derivational

(derivational patterns)

• Define:

Parts of speech and their characteristics (to innumerate).

• Define:

Notional and functional parts of speech.

• Define:

Part-of-speech meaning. Part-of speech meaning for notional (nouns, verbs, adjectives, numerals, and adverbs) and functional (prepositions, conjunctions, articles, and particles) classes.

• Describe:

Morphological properties of word-classes..

• Describe:

Derivational properties of word-classes..

• Describe:

Three syntactic properties of word-classes..

• Describe:

Part-of-speech systems in different languages (the differences).