We shall see that the great form-classes of a language are most easily described in terms of ' word-classes' (such as the traditional 'parts of speech'), because the form-calss of a phrase is usually determined by one or more of the words which appear in it. - Bloomfield (1935), a pag.190 [...] the form-classes of syntax are most easily decribed in terms of ' word-classes'. - Bloomfield (1935), a pag.196
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