DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmapart of speech system
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaHockett (1958)
TitoloA Course in Modern Linguistics
Sinonimi 
Rinviipart of speech (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

The ‘part of speech system’ of a language is the classification of all its stems on the basis of similarities and differences of inflectional and syntactical behavior. Since every whole word contains, by definition, just one stem, a part-of-speech system can also be interpreted as a classification of whole words: the part of speech of a word is that of its stem.
- Hockett (1958), Pag. 221