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Parts of speech are classified by syntactic usage rather than inherent lexical categorization

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Is it true that parts of speech are classified by syntactic usage rather than inherent lexical categorization?

Yes. Modern linguistic theory and empirical evidence demonstrate that parts of speech are determined by their syntactic distribution and contextual usage rather than solely by inherent lexical categories.

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The retrieved literature (particularly papers 0, 1, and 5) directly discusses the debate on lexical categorization, supporting the view that syntactic context and combinability play a primary role in determining word class and functional assignment rather than strictly pre-syntactic, inherent lexical features.

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Functional class (so called “part of speech”) assignment as a kind of meaning-bound word syntactic information
2015
The study emphasizes that functional classes or parts of speech are determined by combinability characteristics and syntactic rules rather than purely inherent lexical divisions.
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Wajszczuk, J. (2015). Functional class (so called “part of speech”) assignment as a kind of meaning-bound word syntactic information. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.11649/CS.2010.001

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Parts of Speech, Lexical Categories, and Word Classes in Morphology
2020
Modern linguistic approaches, such as those by Marantz and Borer, treat word roots as category-neutral, where lexical category membership is determined dynamically by local syntactic context.
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Kornfilt, J. (2020). Parts of Speech, Lexical Categories, and Word Classes in Morphology. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.606

Tracking Neural Correlates of Contextualized Meanings with Representational Similarity Analysis.
2025
Experimental findings demonstrate that neural representations of wordforms are heavily shaped by their syntactic context and category rather than rigid, isolated lexical definitions.
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AP, M. & L, P. (2025). Tracking Neural Correlates of Contextualized Meanings with Representational Similarity Analysis.. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0409-24.2025

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