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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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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Outstanding dissertations in linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Note on phonological transcriptions; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Definitions of lexical classes; 2.1 Semantic characterizations; 2.2 Morphological diagnostics; 2.3 Syntactic distribution; 2.4 Extended roles and syntactic markedness; 2.4.1 Criteria for markedness; 2.4.2 WFM and markedness; 2.4.3 Rigid versus flexible languages; 2.4.4 Measures of contextual markedness: De- and recategorization; 2.4.5 Markedness and prototypical mappings; 2.5 The semantics of parts of speech.
- 2.5.1 Prototypicality and peripherally in lexical classification2.5.2 Semantic NAMEs; 2.5.3 Semantic predicates; 2.5.4 Property concepts; 2.5.5 HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS; 2.5.6 Why semantic NAMEs are not linguistic predicates; 2.5.7 Non-prototypical semantic predicates and implicit arguments; 2.6 Syntactic markedness and semantic prototypes; Chapter 3 Semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; 3.1 Some basic terminology; 3.2 Lexicalization and syntactic structure; 3.3 Adjectives, markedness, and iconicity; 3.4 Relations between semantic NAMEs: Attribution and possession; 3.5 Minor lexical classes.
- Chapter 4 Types of lexical inventory4.1 Verb-Adjective conflating inventories; 4.1.1 Noun, verb, and adjective in Salishan; 4.1.1.1 Nominal predicates and nominal actants; 4.1.1.2 Verbs as actants; 4.1.1.3 Verbs as unmarked modifiers; 4.1.1.4 Modification in Bella Coola; 4.1.2 Cora; 4.1.2.1 Modification and relative clauses in Cora; 4.1.2.2 Nouns and modification in Cora; 4.1.2.3 Flexibility and rigidity as syntactic parameters; 4.2 Noun-Adjective conflating inventories; 4.2.1 Quechua; 4.2.2 Upper Necaxa Totonac; 4.2.2.1 Property concepts in Upper Necaxa.
- 4.2.2.2 Adjectives and nouns as syntactic predicates4.2.2.3 Adjectives as actants; 4.2.2.4 Nouns as modifiers; 4.2.2.5 Secondary diagnostics: Quantification and pluralization; 4.2.3 Hausa; 4.2.4 The N[AV] inventory reconsidered; Chapter 5 Conclusions; References; Index.