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Points to discuss
1. The classical approach to the parts of speech problem.
2. The functional approach to the parts of speech problem.
3. The distributional approach to the parts of speech problem.
4. The complex approach to the parts of speech problem.
Questions for discussion
1. Define parts of speech. Can the term be considered a happy one?
2. Characterize the existing approaches to the parts of speech problem.
3. What does the classical approach consist in? What principle served as the
basis of classification?
4. What is the essence of the functional approach?
5. What principle was H. Sweet’s classification based on?
6. How is O. Jespersen’s classification different from the classification worked
out by H. Sweet?
7. Describe the structural approach. What methods did it rely on?
8. What principle lay in the basis of Ch. Fries’s classification? What were the
substitution patterns? How many classes did Ch. Fries single out? How
many groups of functional words?
9. What criteria are used by the adherents of the complex approach? What parts
of speech are traditionally singled out?
10. What are the merits and demerits of the traditional classification of words
into parts of speech?
11. What is the difference between notional classes and function words?
12. What results of the four approaches to the parts of speech problem coincide
and what results differ?
Practice Assignment
Decide to what part of speech the underlined words may be assigned:
1. He is given sight only after
dusk, when he can witness his captors and
saviours. (M. Ondaatje)
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