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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beck, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Colección:Outstanding dissertations in linguistics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (233 pages)
ISBN:9781136069062
1136069062