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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?

  • 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?

  • 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?

<p>Parts of speech (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How are words distinguished in modern linguistics?

<p>By semantic, morphological, and syntactic properties (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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