Open vs. Closed: Examples
• If Aux is defined as a (subclass of) verb with no
thematic role discharged 3 Aux’s in Hung.:
fog ‘will’; szokott ‘usually does’; talál ‘happens to’
But: each has different complementation,
affixation, etc., properties.
• Articles: the, a/an, some, ZERO (?) – different
distribution by definition.
In fact, it is the ‘articles’ own edge features that
determine their complementation
• Pronouns are notorious for being a ‘non-class’ –
but it’s convenient: related to one another by
common properties of being referential by deixis
or member of a paradigm, etc.Closed classes = metalinguisti