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Basic grammatical distinctions

SYNTAX:

CATEGORIES: Part of speech (POS, major grammatical category):
noun, pronoun, determiner, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection

Functions:

Subject, Object, ...

Linear word order, linearisation:

SVO, SOV, VSO, ...,

MORPHOLOGY:

CATEGORIES:

Verbal minor categories (morphological, inflectional categories)

Nominal minor categories (morphological, inflectional categories)

Structural/positional morphological categories:

affix, prefix, suffix, infix, circumfix, superfix



Dafydd Gibbon, Thu Jul 19 17:47:45 MET DST 2001