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Mathilde Hennig

So, und so, und so weiter. Vom Sinn und Unsinn der Wortklassifikation / So, und so, und so weiter. On the purpose and nonsense of part-of-speech classification

The article addresses the empirical problem of part-of-speech classification. In order to illustrate this problem, the study presents an analysis of 100 instances of the use of so, in which it becomes clear that the part-of-speech hypotheses derived from reference works only cover a portion of the occurrences of so. The focus on the empirical problem of part-of-speech classification originates from the belief that, on the one hand, the linguistic reality which is to be empirically analyzed should serve as the criterion for reasonable part-of-speech classification, and that on the other hand, empirical analyses also pose theoretical problems which would remain undetected in a purely theoretical approach. The article therefore closes with a plea for a narrow connection between theory and empiricism in order to be able to attain a reasonable part-of-speech classification.

Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0301-3294
Volume: 34, 03/2007
Pages: 409 - 431

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