[Corpora-List] About Part of Speech in English and Chinese

[Chris Lists]

Although the disucssion has been specifically about English and Chinese, it
is important from a more general viewpoint to remember that there are
languages (e.g. Mundari, Squamish) in which a single class of lexemes can be
used for all types of syntactic slot.. For discussion and illustration of
degrees of flexibility, as well as a proposal for the classification of
parts of speech, see the following:

Hengeveld, Kees (1992) Non-verbal Predication: Theory, Typology, Diachrony.
Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, Ch. 4.

Hengeveld, Kees (1992) Parts of speech. In Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder
and Lars Kristoffersen (eds.) Layered Structure and Reference in a
Functional Perspective. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 29-55.

García Velasco, Daniel and Kees Hengeveld (1992) Do we need predicate
frames? In Ricardo Mairal Usón and María Jesús Pérez Quintero (eds.) New
Perspectives on Argument Structure in Functional Grammar. Berlin/New York:
Mouton de Gruyter, 95-123.

Chris Butler
Honorary Professor, Swansea University, UK
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Translation Studies, University of Leeds, UK