[Corpora-List] complete list of closed-class words in English

[Alexander Yeh]

One thing about citing or making use of Wikipedia contents: I find that 
I need to give a date for the "version" of the article that I am 
referring to. I have found some articles of interest to drastically 
change in its contents in less than a year.

-Alex

Yannick Versley wrote:
>     But I disagree with your assumption that Wikipedia is not
>     "authentic" - Wikipedia has sophisticated mechanisms for fostering
>     and monitoring supervised collaboration, producing a resource which
>     is arguably more authoritative and unbiased than a single-authored
>     source; e.g. see [...]
>
> I think what *was* meant was something closer to the original research.
>
> Wikipedia is meant as an encyclopedia - not a primary source (i.e.
> original research) or
> a secondary source (survey papers, textbooks). Encyclopedias (tertiary
> sources) gain
> credibility by looking (or formulating) a consensus between texts inside
> a domain and
> making them accessible to people outside a domain.
>
> WP often gets coverage for obscure topics that have no secondary sources
> and then people delete the article for non-notability or lack of sources
> (these
> are part of the "sophisticated mechanisms" - Wikipedia has long drifted away
> from the initial anarchy, but it also introduced scary-looking people
> with truncheons
> in the process).
>
> If you look at the WP page on "Closed class", the article is relatively
> short and
> incoherent (but the WP:Administrators don't seem to have noticed it),
> whereas
> the one for "function word" is a lot longer and has "citation needed"
> and "original
> research" stuck to its top. The "function word" article links to a page
> with a
> list of "function words" where they include
>
>     Auxiliary Verbs
>     Conjunctions
>     Determiners
>     Prepositions
>     Pronouns
>     Quantifiers
>
>
> And, of course, some people think that prepositions don't really fit the
> function
> word criteria and say that they're somewhere between function words (which
> usually have no meaning that is independent of context) and lexical
> words (which do).
> http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/hlittlefield/ResearchDocs/Chapter1.pdf
> seems to give a sensible overview on who claims what in that discussion.
>
> Best,
> Yannick Versley
>
>
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