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So, und so, und so weiter. Vom Sinn und Unsinn der Wortklassifikation / So, und so, und so weiter. On the purpose and nonsense of part-of-speech classification

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Published/Copyright: June 5, 2007
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Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik
From the journal Volume 34 Issue 3

Abstract

The article addresses the empirical problem of part-of-speech classification. In order to illustrate this problem, the study presents an analysis of 100 instances of the use of so, in which it becomes clear that the part-of-speech hypotheses derived from reference works only cover a portion of the occurrences of so. The focus on the empirical problem of part-of-speech classification originates from the belief that, on the one hand, the linguistic reality which is to be empirically analyzed should serve as the criterion for reasonable part-of-speech classification, and that on the other hand, empirical analyses also pose theoretical problems which would remain undetected in a purely theoretical approach. The article therefore closes with a plea for a narrow connection between theory and empiricism in order to be able to attain a reasonable part-of-speech classification.

Published Online: 2007-06-05
Published in Print: 2007-03-20

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