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We can divide the lexicon into parts of speech (POS), that is, classes whose words share common grammatical properties. The concept of part of speech dates back to the classical antiquity philosophy and teaching. Plato made a distinction between the verb and the noun. After him, the word classification further evolved and parts of speech grew in number until Dionysius Thrax fixed and formulated them under a form that we still use today. Aelius Donatus popularized the list of the eight parts of speech: noun, pronoun, verb, participle, conjunction, adverb, preposition, and interjection, in his work Ars grammatica, a reference reading in the Middle Ages: “Partes orationis quot sunt? Octo. Quae? Nomen pronomen verbum adverbium participium coniunctio praepositio interiectio.”
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(2006). Words, Parts of Speech, and Morphology. In: An Introduction to Language Processing with Perl and Prolog. Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34336-9_5
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