Flexible Word Classes : Typological studies of underspecified parts of speech.

This is a major cross-linguistic study of 'flexible words', i.e. words that cannot be classified in terms of the traditional lexical categories verb, noun, adjective or adverb. It includes new cross-linguistic studies of word class systems as well as original descriptive and theoretical co...

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Main Author: Rijkhoff, Jan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Scholarship Online, 2013.
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Summary:This is a major cross-linguistic study of 'flexible words', i.e. words that cannot be classified in terms of the traditional lexical categories verb, noun, adjective or adverb. It includes new cross-linguistic studies of word class systems as well as original descriptive and theoretical contributions.
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:1299802958
9781299802957