Basic linguistic theory. Volume 2, Grammatical topics / R.M.W. Dixon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammaticality (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (508 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

R.M.W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The books are a one-stop text for undergraduate and graduate students, the outcome of a lifetime's immersion in every aspect of language.

Contents:

Contents; List of tables and figures; How to read this book; Preface; Abbreviations and conventions; 10. Grammatical Word and Phonological Word; 10.1. Types of word; 10.2. What is a word?; 10.3. Phonological word; 10.4. Grammatical word; 10.5. Clitics; 10.6. Relationship between grammatical and phonological words; 10.7. Interjections; 10.8. The social and mental status of words; 10.9. Summary; 10.10. What to investigate; Sources and notes; 11. Distinguishing Noun and Verb; 11.1. Preliminaries; 11.2. Major functions; 11.3. Multiple functions or zero derivation?

11.4. Structures of noun phrases with difierent heads11.5. Properties of predicates with difierent heads; 11.6. Grammatical categories associated with verbs; 11.7. Grammatical categories associated with nouns; 11.8. Further criteria; 11.9. Summary; 11.10. What to investigate; Sources and notes; 12. The Adjective Class; 12.1. Parameters of variation; 12.2. Why recognize an adjective class?; 12.3. Criteria for recognition; 12.4. The semantic content of adjective classes; 12.5. Distinguishing types of adjective class; 12.5.1. Distinguishing between adjective and verb classes

12.5.2. Distinguishing between adjective and noun classes12.5.3. Adjectives grammatically similar to both verbs and nouns; 12.5.4. Adjectives grammatically difierent from both verbs and nouns; 12.6. Languages with restricted functional possibilities for adjectives; 12.7. Languages with two adjective classes; 12.8. Correlations with other grammatical parameters; 12.9. Semantic overlapping between word classes; 12.10. Summary; 12.11. What to investigate; Appendix Distinguishing Noun, Verb, and Adjective in Fijian; Sources and notes; 13. Transitivity; 13.1. Clausal transitivity

13.2. Marking of core arguments13.2.1. Recognizing cases; 13.3. Transitivity classes of verbs; 13.4. More complex types; 13.5. The semantic bases; 13.5.1. Identifying A; 13.5.2. Identifying O; 13.5.3. Ways of expressing 'giving'; 13.5.4. Split systems of marking; 13.5.5. Transitivity classes; 13.6. Non-canonical marking of core arguments; 13.6.1. ATTENTION and LIKING verbs; 13.7. Summary; 13.8. What to investigate; Appendix 1. Beyond 'accusative' and 'ergative'; Appendix 2. Confusing uses of terms 'unaccusative' and 'unergative'; Sources and notes; 14. Copula Clauses and Verbless Clauses

14.1. Introduction14.2. Contrasting functions of adjectives and nouns; 14.3. Syntax; 14.4. Relational meanings; 14.4.1. Multiple copulas; 14.5. Forms; 14.5.1. Negative copulas; 14.6. Occurrence and omission; 14.7. Historical development; 14.8. Summary; 14.9. What to investigate; Sources and notes; 15. Pronouns and Demonstratives; 15.1. The category of pronoun; 15.1.1. Person and number; 15.1.2. 'Me and you'; 15.1.3. Neutralization; 15.1.4. Gender; 15.1.5. Social niceties; 15.1.6. A further 'person', and impersonal/indefinite; 15.1.7. Grammatical properties; 15.1.8. Pronoun elaboration

15.1.9. Bound pronouns

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

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ISBN:

1-383-04656-5

1-299-31352-3

0-19-157145-8

OCLC:

609850509