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Re: Linguistic term for ease of changing word-class (was: 'out-' affix in conlangs?)

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 19:16
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:

> With all respect to Priscian, Donatus and the guys
> I always found "part-of-speech" a silly term.

Agreed.  It's both unwieldy and misleading; makes one think the intent
is phonemes or phones or something.


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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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