The typology of parts of speech systems :: the markedness of adjectives /

This book presents rigorous and criterial definitions of the major parts of speech - noun, verb, and adjective - that account both for their syntactic behaviour and for their observed typological variation. Based on an examination of languages from five different groups - Salishan, Cora, Quechua, To...

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1. Verfasser: Beck, David, 1963-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Routledge, 2002.
Schriftenreihe:Outstanding dissertations in linguistics.
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Zusammenfassung:This book presents rigorous and criterial definitions of the major parts of speech - noun, verb, and adjective - that account both for their syntactic behaviour and for their observed typological variation. Based on an examination of languages from five different groups - Salishan, Cora, Quechua, Totonac, and Hausa - this book argues that parts of speech must be defined by combining the criteria of syntactic markedness, which characterizes lexical classes in terms of unmarked syntactic roles, and semantic prototypicality, which delimits their prototypical meanings. Adjectives are shown to be t.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 219 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.
ISBN:9781136069062
1136069062
9780203475201
0203475208
9781136069222
1136069224
9781136069147
1136069143
9780415864992
0415864992

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