Developments are made from the definitions of a syntactic class and a syntactic constant given in the article “Fries on Word Classes”, Language and Speech, 2 (1959), 86. They are related to work by Zellig S. Harris. The theory is applied to English but it is hoped it will be more generally useful.
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