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Lexical polycategoriality : cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches /

This book presents a collection of chapters on the nature, flexibility and acquisition of lexical categories. These long-debated issues are looked at anew by exploring the hypothesis of lexical polycategoriality -according to which lexical forms are not fully, or univocally, specified for lexical ca...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Vapnarsky, Valentina (Editor ), Veneziano, Edy (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 182.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Lexical Polycategoriality
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • In memoriam to Melissa Bowerman
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of contributors
  • Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches
  • Cross-linguistic and cross-theoretical analysis of polycategoriality
  • 1. Polycategoriality: Descriptive and theoretical issues
  • 1.1 Identical or zero-related forms and their interpretation
  • 1.2 What are the relevant criteria?
  • 1.2.1 Distributional properties
  • 1.2.2 Syntactic function1.2.3 Semantic predictability
  • 1.3 At which level(s) does polycategoriality apply?
  • 1.3.1 Cross-linguistic morphosyntactic properties and polycategoriality
  • 1.3.2 Diachronic changes
  • 2. Lexical categories in acquisition
  • 3. The contributions to this volume
  • References
  • Part 1. Polycategoriality
  • The flexibility of the noun/verb distinction in the lexicon of Mandinka
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The basics of Mandinka morphosyntax
  • 2.1 Clause structure
  • 2.1.1 The prototypical transitive construction
  • 2.1.2 Intransitive predication2.1.3 Intransitive alignment, and the notions of subject and object
  • 2.1.4 Constraints on transitivity, passive and antipassive
  • 2.2 NP structure
  • 3. Nouns vs. verbs in the lexicon of Mandinka: Introductory remarks
  • 4. Verbal lexemes
  • 5. Verbo-nominal lexemes
  • 6. The semantics of verbo-nominal lexemes
  • 6.1 Semantic types of verbo-nominal lexemes
  • 6.2 Verbo-nominal lexemes and identificational predication
  • 6.3 Categorial flexibility and polysemy
  • 7. Nominal lexemes marginally used as verbs
  • 8. Conclusion
  • 2.4.2 Prototypical relations between semantic class and discourse pragmatic function2.4.3 Definition of the categorial property
  • 2.5 Function-Changing Morphology
  • 3. On the properties of lexical items
  • 3.1 Only three distinct properties
  • 3.2 Factors of individualisation for lexical entities
  • 3.3 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • References
  • Categorial flexibility as an emergent phenomenon
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 What is categorial flexibility?
  • 1.2 Where could categorial flexibility be found?
  • 1.3 Are roots real?