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;unmarked  grammatical functions under the guidance of Wang Renqiang’s theoretical model of Two-Level Word Class Categorization in Analytic Languages. And in the studies of Chinese word classes it is unjustified to follow the “principle of parsimony”. Finally, it is to provide some suggestions for the treatment in word class labeling in C-E dictionary compilation. 
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Chapter Two   Literature Review  

2.1   Introduction  
Word class categorization of analytic languages has always been a hot and difficult issue in linguistics. The word class labeling of Chinese dictionaries and C-E dictionaries is also not easy. It is noteworthy that word class labeling is a knotty problem in the compilation of C-E dictionaries, which affects the macrostructure and microstructure of C-E  dictionaries,  especially  the  setting  of  senses  of  entries,  translation  and exemplifications in the microstructure. Empirical studies also show that, the degree of accurate  judgment  of  word  classes directly  affects  the  quality  of  translation  of  C-E dictionaries,  thereby  affecting  the  entire  quality  of  compilation  of  C-E  dictionaries (Wang Renqiang & Zhang Yihua, 2006). 
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2.2   Previous Studies on Word Classes
Although the studies of word classes, or parts of speech, have a very long history of at least 2000 years, it is still a hot topic and a difficult issue in linguistics. And the essence  of  word  classes  and  the  criteria  for  word  class  categorization  are  very controversial. At about 4th century B.C., Plato was the first one who divided the sentence into two parts, namely onoma (a nominal part) and rhema (a verbal part). And then, Aristotle, his pupil,  added  a  third  word  class,  namely  the  Syndesmos  (which  are  grammatically functional words). Afterwards, Stoics, a famous school of grammarians, further divided the onoma into three groups, namely proper nouns, common nouns and adverbs, and the syndesmos  into  inflected  forms  and  uninflected  forms  which  are  based  on  the case-marking. After that, Dionysius Thrax, a very great Ancient Greek grammarian, set up an 8 word class categories system in his masterpiece called Techene Grammatike. They  are  nouns  (combined  proper  nouns  and  common  nouns,  including  adjectives), verbs, participles (from verbs), prepositions & conjunctions (from uninflected forms), articles & pronouns (from inflected forms), and adverbs. The next master is Priscian who made another classification which is surprisingly similar to that of Dionysius Thrax, which made interjection an independent word class. But in 1795, Lindley Murray made a  modification  and  classified  the  word  classes  into  another  eight  parts,  which  first divided adjective from noun and became the base of ‘traditional grammar’. During 13th to  14th  century,  the  influential  Modisi  School  analyzed  Arist本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。