Are These the Major Word Classes for the Japanese Language?

Hi, I've been looking on the Internet for Japanese word classes I but can't really find much resources, so I'm not confident about my findings. Can anyone double-check for me if these are indeed all (or at least the major) word classes for Japanese?

Here are the word classes (parts of speech) of Japanese words that I managed to compile from what I've scoured around:

  • Joshi (particles)
  • Meishi (nouns)
  • Daimeishi (pronouns)
  • Dōshi (verbs)
  • Keiyōshi and keiyōdōshi (adjectives)
  • Rentaishi (adjectival nouns)
  • Fukushi (adverbs)
  • Setsuzokushi (conjunctions)
  • Kandōshi (interjections)

Let me know if I'm missing anything. Thanks in advance!

by oHarlequinn

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