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From: jbn@GLACIER.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
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Subject: English grammar
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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 88 20:16 EDT
From: John B. Nagle <jbn@glacier.stanford.edu>
Subject: English grammar
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     I understand that there is an approach to English grammar based on
the following assumptions.

      1.  There are four main categories of words, essentially nouns,
	  verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.  These categories are
	  extensible; new words can be added.

      2.  There are about 125 "special" words, not in one of the four
	  main categories.  This list is essentially fixed.  (New
	  nouns appear all the time, but new conjunctions and articles
	  never.)

Does anyone have a reference to this, one that lists all the "special"
words?

					John Nagle