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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807316203321

Titolo

How categorical are categories? : new approaches to the old questions of noun, verb, and adjective / / edited by Joanna Blaszczak, Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Krzysztof Migdalski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-5015-0090-2

1-61451-451-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Collana

Studies in Generative Grammar, , 0167-4331 ; ; Volume 122

Classificazione

ET 100

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammaticalization

Categorial grammar

Language, Universal

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- About the Editors -- The status of categories in the linguistic theory: Introduction -- Nouns, verbs, and verbal nouns: Their structures and their structural cases -- Nuu-chah-nulth nouns and verbs revisited: Root allomorphy and the structure of nominal predicates -- Noun and verb in the mind. An interdisciplinary approach -- Categorial ambiguities within the noun phrase: Relational adjectives in Polish -- Degree modification across categories: Nouns vs. adjectives -- Definiteness and degree morphology -- What are categories? Adjective-like and noun-like semi-lexical numerals in Polish -- Defining vs. diagnosing linguistic categories: A case study of clitic phenomena -- Name/Author Index -- Subject Index -- Language Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses the foundational question of category distinctions and challenges the traditional views from the modern theoretical and experimental perspective. Its focus is on the noun-verb, noun-adjective distinctions and categories occupying the "grey zone" between standard categories (e.g., nominalizations). This book will be of interest



for researchers and students of linguistics and cognitive sciences.