Re: Name those parts of speech

Gregory:
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Question 1: Baihe makes no distinction between adjective and adverb;
_zefoth_ can mean "quick" or "quickly" depending on whether it is used
with a noun or verb.
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In other words, whether it's used as an adjective or an adverb.
Consider:

(1) I received an IM.
(2) I IM'd you yesterday.

Here, we have "IM" as a noun and a verb.  We don't have a new
part of speech for it, though: it's a noun if it's a noun, and a verb
if it's a verb.  The same would be true of /zefoth/ (and is also
the case with grammatical descriptions of languages like Hawaiian,
where many [most?] words can be used as verbs, nouns, adjectives
*and* adverbs).

Gregory:
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Question 2: I am using "article" to describe the default, "if there is
nothing else" concluding word. Is there a proper name for a group of
words used in this manner?
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It's theory dependent, but the word used commonly is "determiner".
In a syntactic theory, that'd be the specifier position: the thing
required to make a noun phrase a noun phrase.

-David
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