Dictionary POS

[Jonathan Lighter]

FWIW, no standard dictionary I know of uses the more precise terminology. Why not? Because nobody except us would buy one, that's why not.  Too hard to figure out the labels.

  JL

Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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I don't know how useful this would be to you, but look at the *COMLEX
English Syntax Lexicon*.

-- Mark A. Mandel
Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania


On Jan 9, 2008 12:36 PM, LanDi Liu wrote:

> Are there published English dictionaries with modern part of speech
> labels,
> like determinative, subordinator, etc.?
>
> If not, are there any in the works?
>
> Randy Alexander
> Jilin City, China
>

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