Disadvantages Of Word Class

When you look up a word in a dictionary, you will often see what word class that word comes under depending on the definition of the word you’re looking for. For example, the word, word, can be either a noun or a verb, depending on the context you’re using it in, for example, in “a word of caution”, word is a noun, but in “he words his request”, words is a verb. There are eight major word classes we have covered during LING101, those being nouns, main verbs, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, prepositions, auxiliary verbs, conjunctions and complementizes, and we have three main criteria for classifying what word class a word belongs to. These are morphological, distributional and semantic criteria (Quinn, 2016), and each has advantages and drawbacks in classifying word class.

The first of the three main criteria for classifying word

This criterion is how English words are structured, what inflectional suffixes a word can take, for example -ed in uploaded and -er in faster, what derivation suffixes a word can take, for example -en in spoken and -er in singer, and what derivational prefixes a