Approaches To The Typology Of Word Classes
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Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes
Author | : Petra M. Vogel,Bernard Comrie |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2011-05-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110806120 |
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The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Word Classes
Author | : Raffaele Simone,Francesca Masini |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2014-09-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027269768 |
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The universal and typological status of the notion of word class — closely related to part-of-speech systems, morphology, syntax and the lexicon-syntax interface — continues to be of major linguistic theoretical interest. The papers included in this volume offer a fresh look at the variety of current theoretical and descriptive approaches to word class issues, and present original analyses and new data from a number of languages. The primary focus is on methods (including computational ones) and criteria for identifying and representing major word classes and subclasses in specific languages, with considerable attention also directed towards the characterization of the nature and role of minor — or neglected — word classes, including trans-categorization processes. The range of topics and perspectives covered makes this volume of considerable interest to both theoretical linguists and typologists.
Flexible Word Classes
Author | : Jan Rijkhoff,Eva van Lier,Eva Helena van Lier |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2013-08-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199668441 |
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This book is the first 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.
Adjective Classes
Author | : R.M.W. Dixon,Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2004-09-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199270934 |
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This book shows that every language has an adjective class and how such classes vary. Thirteen scholars report original research on languages from North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The book throws new light on the nature and classification of adjectives and redefines the cross-linguistic parameters of their variation.
Language at Large
Author | : Alexandra Aikhenvald,R.M.W. Dixon |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 2011-07-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789004207684 |
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The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon. It focusses on topics in linguistic typology, the analysis of previously undescribed languages and issues in the grammar and lexicography of English.
The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes
Author | : Eva van Lier |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1137 |
Release | : 2023-12-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780192594365 |
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This handbook explores multiple facets of the study of word classes, also known as parts of speech or lexical categories. These categories are of fundamental importance to linguistic theory and description, both formal and functional, and for both language-internal analyses and cross-linguistic comparison. The volume consists of five parts that investigate word classes from different angles. Chapters in the first part address a range of fundamental issues including diversity and unity in word classes around the world, categorization at different levels of structure, the distinction between lexical and functional words, and hybrid categories. Part II examines the treatment of word classes across a wide range of contemporary linguistic theories, such as Cognitive Grammar, Minimalist Syntax, and Lexical Functional Grammar, while the focus of Part III is on individual word classes, from major categories such as verb and noun to minor ones such as adpositions and ideophones. Part IV provides a number of cross-linguistic case studies, exploring word classes in families including Afroasiatic, Sinitic, Mayan, Austronesian, and in sign languages. Chapters in the final part of the book discuss word classes from the perspective of various sub-disciplines of linguistics, ranging from first and second language acquisition to computational and corpus linguistics. Together, the contributions showcase the importance of word classes for the whole discipline of linguistics, while also highlighting the many ongoing debates in the areas and outlining fruitful avenues for future research.
Typology and Universals
Author | : William Croft |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521004993 |
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A thorough rewriting to reflect advances in typology and universals in the past decade.
Cross Categorial Classification
Author | : Serge Sagna |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2022-03-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110632767 |
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Languages in which non-finite verbs (infinitives, gerunds etc.) are classified using the same linguistic means as nouns are rare. This typologically unusual phenomenon is found in some Atlantic (Niger-Congo) languages, including Jóola languages like Eegimaa, Fogny and Kwatay, where several different noun class/gender prefixes (NCPs) are used to classify both nouns and verbs. In this book, it is argued following Sagna (2008), that these parallel morphosyntactic classifications in the nominal domain and verbal domains also reflect parallel semantic categorisation of entities and events. The main topics investigated in this book are word class flexibility between nouns and verbs, non-finiteness, noun class/gender (where morphological classes are analysed separately from agreement classes) and the semantic principles underlying the categorisation of entities and events. One of the central findings proposed in this book is that instances of NCP alternations on non-finite verbs reflect strategies of event delimitation. This book will be of interest to scholars investigating parts-of-speech systems, finiteness, systems of nominal and verbal classification, and linguistic categorization.