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How categorical are categories? : new approaches to the old questions of noun, verb, and adjective / edited by Joanna Blaszczak, Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Krzysztof Migdalski.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in generative grammar ; Volume 122.
- Studies in Generative Grammar, 0167-4331 ; Volume 122
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammaticalization.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Categorial grammar.
- Language, Universal.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (323 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Mouton, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book addresses the foundational question of category distinctions and challenges the traditional views from the modern theoretical and experimental perspective. Its focus is on the noun-verb, noun-adjective distinctions and categories occupying the "grey zone" between standard categories (e.g., nominalizations). This book will be of interest for researchers and students of linguistics and cognitive sciences.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Table of Contents
- About the Editors
- The status of categories in the linguistic theory: Introduction
- Nouns, verbs, and verbal nouns: Their structures and their structural cases
- Nuu-chah-nulth nouns and verbs revisited: Root allomorphy and the structure of nominal predicates
- Noun and verb in the mind. An interdisciplinary approach
- Categorial ambiguities within the noun phrase: Relational adjectives in Polish
- Degree modification across categories: Nouns vs. adjectives
- Definiteness and degree morphology
- What are categories? Adjective-like and noun-like semi-lexical numerals in Polish
- Defining vs. diagnosing linguistic categories: A case study of clitic phenomena
- Name/Author Index
- Subject Index
- Language Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501500909
- 1501500902
- 9781614514510
- 1614514518
- OCLC:
- 922905065
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