Linguipedia: New page: The term '''word class''' is often used for the classification of lexemes into the morphosyntactically most important classes noun, verb, adjective, adposition, adverb,...

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New page: The term '''word class''' is often used for the classification of lexemes into the morphosyntactically most important classes noun, verb, adjective, adposition, adverb,...

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The term '''word class''' is often used for the classification of lexemes into the morphosyntactically most important classes [[noun]], [[verb]], [[adjective]], [[adposition]], [[adverb]], and so on.

===Subtypes===
(traditional word classes:)
* [[noun]]
* [[verb]]
* [[adjective]]
* [[adposition]] ([[preposition]], [[postposition]])
* [[adverb]]
* [[interjection]]

(the following have traditionally been considered as word classes, but are often not considered word classes by modern linguists:)
* [[pronoun]]
* [[numeral]]
* [[conjunction]]

(other categories of lexemes that are sometimes regarded as word classes:)
* [[particle]]
* [[auxiliary verb]]
* [[complementizer]]

===Synonyms===
* [[part of speech]] (this is the old term)
* [[syntactic category]] (this is a term from the 1960s generative tradition)
* [[lexical category]] (this is a term from the 1990s generative tradition)

===Other languages===
German [[Wortklasse]] Portuguese [[classe de palavras]]

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Linguipedia: New page: The term '''word class''' is often used for the classification of lexemes into the morphosyntactically most important classes noun, verb, adjective, adposition, adverb,...