Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. General background. 1. Introduction. 2. Adjectival encoding in language: The standard approach. 3. Adjectival encoding in language: Nouniness and verbiness
  • pt. 2. A typology of predicative adjectival constructions. 4. Preliminaries. 5. Nouny adjectivals in type-A languages. 6. Verby adjectivals in type-A languages. 7. Adjectival predication in type-B languages
  • pt. 3. Towards an explanation of the nouny-verby split. 8. The Tense Hypothesis. App. A. Alphabetical listing of the sample
  • App. B. Genetic and areal stratification of the sample.