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Re: Parts of Speech - how many?

From:Markus Miekk-oja <fam.miekk-oja@...>
Date:Saturday, July 19, 2003, 11:27
> 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.
Ok. In Finland's Swedish schools, learning this distinction is considered for some reason important.
> 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.
Oh, I expressed myself unclearly. Participles, whenever used as arguments of auxiliry verbs, could perhaps be accepted as a class of their own. Not that I'm sure about it, and I think that's more likely to be a distinction in satsanalys than in ordklasser. 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_.
Yeah, forgot about that one. Not one I'm likely to use though. I also recall _emellan_ eg _oss emellan_, perhaps also _utöver_? (Not sure about that one. A vague feeling of linguistic dissonance emerges when I attempt pronouncing it postpositionally).

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