ON TYPOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTS OF SPEECH IN THE ARMENIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES

Authors

  • Lilit SARGSYAN Yerevan State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/FLHE/2018.22.1.160

Keywords:

lexico-grammatical classes of words, part of speech differentiation, morphological structure, typological characteristics

Abstract

The paper explores the extent of part of speech differentiation in such typologically different languages like Armenian and English. Word classes are identified on the basis of their semantic, morphological and syntactic peculiarities. Irrespective of the typological differences, the differentiation of word classes is observed in accordance to frequency of their occurrence in the language. The latter constitutes the universals of the main differences of parts of speech in languages under study.

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Published

2018-05-16

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 1 (24) (2018)

Section

Linguistics

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