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The adjectival category : criteria for differentiation and identification /
This monograph sets out (i) to establish criteria for differentiating adjectives from other word-classes for languages in which they form a distinct category, and (ii) to establish criteria for determining their (non- )identity with words from other categories for languages in which they do not. As...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins,
©1994.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 24. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This monograph sets out (i) to establish criteria for differentiating adjectives from other word-classes for languages in which they form a distinct category, and (ii) to establish criteria for determining their (non- )identity with words from other categories for languages in which they do not. As languages show various gradations in the extent to which adjectives can be distinguished from other word-classes, the author discusses idealized language types, thereby providing a model for the analysis of natural languages. The book argues that adjectives do not uniformly show all differentiating ch. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (295 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027298805 9027298807 9781556193767 1556193769 |