A category of words of similar form or function; a part of speech.
词类
Example sentencesExamples
On the lexical level, paradigmatic contrasts indicate which words are likely to belong to the same word class (part of speech): cat, dog, parrot in the diagram are all nouns, sat, slept, perched are all verbs.
The present study additionally demonstrates the importance of the first letter of a noun for identifying its word class at an early stage of sentence processing in German.
Conversion is the process that switches words into a different word class.
Ultimately, however, a word class emerges as a function of its role within a constructional schema.
The word class of the repeated items was manipulated to include nouns, adjectives, and verbs - the last a class not used in the previous experiments.
Definition of word class in US English:
word class
nounˈwərd ˌklasˈwərd ˌklæs
A category of words of similar form or function; a part of speech.
词类
Example sentencesExamples
The word class of the repeated items was manipulated to include nouns, adjectives, and verbs - the last a class not used in the previous experiments.
Conversion is the process that switches words into a different word class.
Ultimately, however, a word class emerges as a function of its role within a constructional schema.
The present study additionally demonstrates the importance of the first letter of a noun for identifying its word class at an early stage of sentence processing in German.
On the lexical level, paradigmatic contrasts indicate which words are likely to belong to the same word class (part of speech): cat, dog, parrot in the diagram are all nouns, sat, slept, perched are all verbs.