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Re: Parts of Speech - how many?

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, July 19, 2003, 10:28
Quoting Markus Miekk-oja <fam.miekk-oja@...>:

> Swedish parts of speech: > > >nouns > >verbs > >adjectives > >adverbs > >prepositions > >conjunctions > >articles > >interjections > >infinitival marker > >participles > > > >I'm thinking those were all, but I might've missed one or two. > > Conjunctions are often divided into two in Swedish: > subjunctions and conjunctions > subjunctions are such conjunctions that introduce a subclause. > ("subordinating conjunctions").
But the book I'm refering did not, as far as I can recall.
> I've never seen participles counted separately - I take it you mean the > one's with auxiliry verbs. Wouldn't those rather be a class in clause > analyzis? (grouped with such concepts as subject, object, etc.)?
Participles with auxiliary verbs? I'm not sure what you mean. I do not know why the book listed participles as a separate part of speech, but it did, and apparently included all participles.
> I guess you could have a class of postpositions separately from prepositions > in Swedish too, but they're extremely rare (the only one I'd ever use > postpositionally is "förutan").
There's a couple more, like _igenom_ with periods of time, eg _medeltiden igenom_.
> You've also omitted "numerals" (tho' I see the distinction adjective / > numeral to be highly artificial in Swedish. Numerals would fit better as a > subset of adjectives).
That's one I forgot. The book definitely listed numerals ("räkneord") as a separate part of speech.
> That's 13 if you add > pronouns > numerals > subjunctions
The lack of pronouns in my list above was a mere tpyo. Andreas