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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785257403321

Titolo

Parts of speech [[electronic resource] ] : empirical and theoretical advances / / edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010

ISBN

1-282-77501-4

9786612775017

90-272-8771-6

Descrizione fisica

vi, 291 p. : ill

Collana

Benjamins current topics ; ; v. 25

Altri autori (Persone)

AnsaldoUmberto

DonJan <1963->

PfauRoland

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Parts of speech

Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammatical categories

Linguistic universals

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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-García -- On flexible and rigid nouns / Jan Rijkhoff.