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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rijkhoff, Jan
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Scholarship Online, 2013.
Subjects:	Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammatical categories. Parts of speech. Catégories grammaticales. Parties du discours. Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammatical categories Parts of speech Wortart Typologie Grammatische Relation Kontrastive Linguistik Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

1. Flexible word classes in linguistic typology and grammatical theory / Eva van Lier and Jan Rikhoff
2. Parts-of-speech systems as a basic typological determinant / Kees Hengeveld
3. Derivation and categorization in flexible and differentiated languages / Jan Don and Eva van Lier
4. Riau Indonesian : a language without nouns and verbs / David Gil
5. Parts of speech in Kharia : a formal account / John Peterson
6. Proper names, predicates, and the parts-of-speech system of Santali / Felix Rau
7. Unidirectional flexibility and the noun-verb distinction in Lushootseed / David Beck
8. Lexical categories in Gooniyandi, Kimberly, Western Australia / William B. McGregor
9. Jack of all trades : the Sri Lanka Malay flexible adjective / t Sebastian Nordhoff
10. Word class systems between flexibility and rigidity : an integrative approach / Walter Bisang.