The preceding sections have shown that there are two trends in the
definition of the traditional parts of speech. One initiated by philologists
focuses on the form of words, and one based on philosophy and
logic uses semantic criteria to form the basis of categorization. The two
grammars from the nineteenth century discussed in section 2.4 and
selected as representative of many others, quite clearly follow the
tradition of the philologically-based Te´khne¯ grammatike¯. This is evidenced
by the structure of the grammars and the emphasis placed on
the morphological description of the parts of speech. However, an
influence of the philosophical tradition cannot be ruled out. On the
contrary, it seems highly probable in those cases where a language does
not exhibit features corresponding to the morphological properties of
Greek and Latin. This holds forModern English and thus for Ma¨tzner’s
grammar and other similar grammars