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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2002.
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| Colección: | Outstanding dissertations in linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 219 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781136069062 1136069062 9780203475201 0203475208 9781136069222 1136069224 9781136069147 1136069143 9780415864992 0415864992 |