WORD CLASSES ACCORDING TO ROBINS IN HIS GENI:.'RAL LINGUISTICS.

An Interpretation

Bcsin Gaspar Pusat Baha~.t!Politcknik UBAYA

gasparbesin@ubaya.ac.id

ABSTRACT

This paper aims at analysing R.H.Robins' idea on word c lasses or parts of speech in his book General Lingu istics. The idcnt itication focuses on the number of parts of speech/word classes,the criteria used in the classitication and the approach used. In making the interpretation, the writer refers to some other references for comparisons. From the analysis, it was found that Robins classified English v•ords into nine classes based on traditional approach and traditional grammar. The criteria used in the categorization is the syntactic relation, not semantic or morphological criteria. One word can be categorized into more than one class. deptmding on th~ gramnwtical relation in the sentence.

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