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Classification of Auxiliary Parts of Speech in Contemporary Azerbaijani

ABSTRACT

The article extensively addresses the issues related to the classification of auxiliary parts of speech. After reviewing theoretical generalizations concerning the categorization of auxiliary words, which lack independent lexical meaning, the study focuses on the principles of classifying parts of speech (lexical-semantic, morphological, and syntactic). According to their functions, auxiliary parts of speech are internally classified into several groups: those that establish relations between words and phrases (postpositions), conjunctions), those that express the speaker’s attitude in a sentence (particles, modal words), those that convey emotionality (interjections), those that create imagery (onomatopoeic words), and those that express indefiniteness (imperative forms, nursery words, rhythmic words). In addition to the functional systematization of auxiliary word types, the article also presents their classification by origin. As is known, auxiliary parts of speech historically emerged as a result of the loss of lexical meaning in a group of main parts of speech. From this perspective, auxiliary parts of speech are divided into two groups:

a) those derived from the main parts of speech (postpositions, conjunctions, particles, interjections);

b) those that are not etymologically related to the main parts of speech (imperative words, interjections, rhythmic words, imitative words, nursery words).

KEYWORDS

grammar, part of speeches, grammatical meaning, interjection, universal phenomenon