Flexible word classes : typological studies of underspecified parts of speech / edited by Jan Rijkhoff and Eva Van Lier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rijkhoff, Jan.

Van Lier. Eva.

Series:

Oxford linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parts of speech.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammatical categories.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a major cross-linguistic study of 'flexible words', i.e. words that cannot be classified in terms of the traditional lexical categories verb, noun, adjective or adverb. It includes new cross-linguistic studies of word class systems as well as original descriptive and theoretical contributions.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Notes on contributors; List of abbreviations and symbols; 1 Flexible word classes in linguistic typology and grammatical theory; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Categorization: approaches and problems; 1.2.1 To cognize is to categorize; 1.2.2 Categorization of flexible words; 1.3 Lexical flexibility in theory and description; 1.3.1 A brief history of lexical flexibility in the functional-typological framework; 1.3.2 Establishing flexibility; 1.3.3 Summary; 1.4 Flexibility beyond the lexicon; 1.4.1 Flexibility and levels of grammatical analysis

1.4.2 Zero-marked (re-)categorization: approaches to conversion1.4.3 Flexibility and functional transparency; 1.4.4 Summary; 1.5 This volume; 2 Parts-of-speech systems as a basic typological determinant; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Flexibility, rigidity, and the parts-of-speech hierarchy; 2.3 Four sets of predictions; 2.4 Identifiability; 2.4.1 Introduction; 2.4.2 Clause; 2.4.3 Phrase; 2.4.4 Summary of correlations; 2.5 Integrity; 2.6 Unity; 2.6.1 Introduction; 2.6.2 Morphological subclasses; 2.6.3 Semantic subclasses; 2.6.4 Correlations; 2.7 Pervasiveness; 2.7.1 Introduction

2.7.2 Levels of analysis2.7.3 Further functions; 2.7.4 Correlations; 2.8 Conclusions; 2.9 Appendix: Samples used in the studies reported on in this chapter; 3 Derivation and categorization in flexible and differentiated languages; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Categorization and interpretation; 3.3 Kharia; 3.3.1 Flexible simple roots in Kharia; 3.3.2 Flexible derived roots in Kharia; 3.3.3 Flexible multiple-root phrases in Kharia; 3.3.4 Flexible 'nominalizations' in Kharia; 3.3.5 Summary; 3.4 Tagalog; 3.4.1 Lexical and syntactic zero-derivation in Tagalog; 3.4.2 Voice-marked forms in Tagalog

3.4.3 Gerunds in Tagalog3.4.4 Summary; 3.5 Samoan; 3.5.1 Lexical and syntactic (zero-)derivation in Samoan; 3.5.2 Overt lexical and syntactic derivation in Samoan; 3.5.3 Summary; 3.6 A differentiated language: Dutch; 3.7 Discussion and conclusions; 4 Riau Indonesian: a language without nouns and verbs; 4.1 The English dual; 4.2 Riau Indonesian; 4.3 Nouns and verbs, and what it means not to have them; 4.4 Seeking different distributional privileges for thing and activity expressions; 4.4.1 Standing alone as a complete sentence; 4.4.2 Occurring in coordination with each other

4.4.3 Occurring in construction with existentials4.4.4 Occurring in construction with topic markers; 4.4.5 Occurring in construction with adpositions; 4.4.6 Occurring in construction with demonstratives; 4.4.7 Occurring in construction with distributive universal quantifiers; 4.4.8 Occurring in construction with tense/aspect markers; 4.4.9 Occurring in construction with yang; 4.4.10 Occurring in construction with different negative markers; 4.4.11 Interim summary; 4.5 Bidirectionality, compositionality and exhaustiveness; 4.5.1 Bidirectionality; 4.5.2 Compositionality; 4.5.3 Exhaustiveness

4.5.4 Interim summary

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 2, 2013).

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ISBN:

0-19-164547-8

1-299-80295-8

OCLC:

858949891