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|  Message 3975  |
|  Anton Shepelev to Ardith Hinton  |
|  Some issues from some books  |
|  30 Sep 23 00:11:28  |
 MSGID: 2:221/6.0 65173d78 REPLY: 1:153/716.0 42ce0d01 PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 1.3 20230920 NOTE: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-mingw32). CHRS: CP437 2 TZUTC: 0300 TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2023-02-24 Ardith Hinton: > 1) From my POV there's general agreement as to the eight parts of speech > I learned about in my youth. I know I can count on the dictionary in > almost any European language to employ the same terminology even if I > don't understand their idea of gender. And until you & Anton started > asking more advanced questions the Russians seemed content... [grin]. > > 2) During the 1960's various linguists objected to the old rules & tried > to make improvements... one of which I suspect may be the addition of > the word "particle" in this context. Not all dictionaries include it > because it's not universally accepted & if you find it at all you may > find little or no general agreement as to what it means. At least if > e.g. somebody adds articles to the parts of speech I get the picture, > because I already know the term "article" as a subset of "adjective". > Is possible -- two perfect bricks! --- * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0) SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 15/0 90/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201 123/131 SEEN-BY: 129/305 153/7715 154/10 214/22 218/0 1 215 700 720 840 850 SEEN-BY: 218/860 870 880 930 221/1 6 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 113 SEEN-BY: 229/206 307 317 426 428 470 664 700 240/1120 266/512 282/1038 SEEN-BY: 291/111 301/1 113 305/3 317/3 320/219 322/757 335/364 341/66 SEEN-BY: 341/234 342/200 396/45 460/58 712/848 5020/400 1042 5075/35 PATH: 221/6 301/1 218/700 229/426 |
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