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What are the three major families of words based on formal and semantic features?
What are the three major families of words based on formal and semantic features?
- Noun, verb, and adjective words
- Semantic, syntactic, and morphological words
- Content, function, and lexical words
- Lexical, function, and insert words (correct)
How are parts of speech defined in modern linguistics?
How are parts of speech defined in modern linguistics?
- Lexico-grammatical series of words discriminated based on semantic, morphological, and syntactic criteria (correct)
- Words classified based on their dictionary definitions
- Words grouped according to their frequency in spoken language
- Words categorized by their usage in sentences
What criterion presupposes the generalized categorical meaning for a given part of speech?
What criterion presupposes the generalized categorical meaning for a given part of speech?
- The syntactic criterion
- The lexico-grammatical criterion
- The morphological criterion
- The semantic criterion (correct)
What do linguists refer to as lexico-grammatical series of words?
What do linguists refer to as lexico-grammatical series of words?
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How are words distinguished in modern linguistics?
How are words distinguished in modern linguistics?
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