Parts of speech empirical and theoretical advances /

Parts of speech empirical and theoretical advances / [electronic resource] : edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau. - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010. - vi, 291 p. : ill. - Benjamins current topics ; v. 25 . - Benjamins current topics ; v. 25. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Parts of Speech: Particulars, universals and theoretical constructs / Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau -- Word classes in sign languages: Criteria and classifications / Waldemar Schwager and Ulrike Zeshan -- Roots, stems and word classes / Christian Lehmann -- Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech: The case of Late Archaic Chinese / Walter Bisang -- Covert word classes: Seeking your own syntax in Tukang Besi / Mark Donohue -- Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan / Yulia Koloskova and Toshio Ohori -- The acquisition of syntactic categories in Jakarta Indonesian / David Gil -- Possible phonological cues in categorial acquisition Evidence from adult categorization /Jan Don and Marian Erkelens -- Lexical semantic constraints on noun roots and noun borrowability / Lynn Nichols -- Degree words, intensification, and word class distinctions in Romance languages / Ventura Salazar-Garcia -- On flexible and rigid nouns / Jan Rijkhoff.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9789027287717 (electronic bk.)




Parts of speech.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammatical categories.
Linguistic universals.


Electronic books.

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