In this part of our grammar we go through the word classes into which the words of talk-in-interaction can be divided. We use the traditional word classes, but not all words end up in the same word classes as in the grammars of the written language.
The words of talk-in-interaction can be classified into types, so-called word classes, depending on how/whether they can be inflected (structure), what they can stand together with (distribution) and how they are used (function).
The greatest difference between our description of word classes and that of other grammars is the fact that we look more deeply into the “small” word classes, in particular adverbs, pronouns, and interjections, since many of these are used much more in conversation than in writing.
Words can be independent turn-constructional-units (see Units), that is in some cases one single word alone can contribute to the conversation. This applies to all words because a participant can always repeat a word (e.g to ask what was meant by that word). But certain types of words often or always stand alone and can thereby make up an independent contribution. This obviously applies to interjections, but also certain interrogative pronouns.
Christensen and Christensen (2009) is a textbook and builds on a long tradition of description in Danish grammar.
Hansen and Heltoft (2011) is a big, thorough and scientific description of Danish grammar. In many ways, it is different from the traditional Danish grammar descriptions.
