Lecture 3 - Parts of Speech Theory

H. Sweet’s theory:

Declinables (nouns, adjectives, verbs) morphological
Indeclinables (adverbs, prepositions, criterion conjunctions,

O. Jespersen’s theory of 3 ranks
A furiously barking dog
3 2 1
Criterion

Ch. Fries’s theory

Criterion – position in the sentence
The concert was good.

Group A: words, that can occupy the position of “the”: no,

Parts of Speech
Notional Functional
Have lexical meaning, Demonstrate the relations
Denote a notion between the notional

Disputable questions:

Category of State: It’s easy (warm)
Modal words: probably, perhaps…
Pronouns (this-that,

Functional parts of Speech

Are distinguished on the basis of functional commonness

History:

VII – XI – noun, adjective, adverb, numeral, pronoun, verb
XI –

Kobrina N., Korneeva E.:
The notional P of S: The functional P of

Kaushanskaya V.
The notional P of S: The functional P of S
the noun the

Krylova I.
The notional P of S: The structural P of S
the noun the