LANGUAGE

Word classes

Languages organize their parts of speech into classes according to their functions and positions relative to other parts. All languages, for instance, make a basic distinction between a of words that prototypically denotes things and concepts and a of words that prototypically denotes actions and events. The first , which includes English words as dog and song, are usually called . The second, which includes think and sing, are called . Another common category is the : words that describe properties or qualities of , as red or big. Word classes can open if new words can continuously added to the class, or relatively closed if there is a fixed number of words in a class. In English, the class of is closed, whereas the class of is open, since infinite number of can constructed from (e.g. saddened) or (e.g. with the -like suffix, as in -like). In other languages as Korean, the situation is the opposite, and new can constructed, whereas the number of is fixed.

adverb

conjunction

interjection

Morphology

Syntax

LANGUAGE
Written
Comprehension
Understanding
Spoken
Spoken writing
joining
sounds
SENTENCES
Syntax
paragraph
chapter
root word
prefix
suffix
infix
morpheme
phoneme
synonym
antonym
similie
homonym
homograph
etymology
pragmatics
semiotics
semantics
linguistics

PARTS OF SPEECH

word
word
Adverb
Adverb