The Typology Of Parts Of Speech Systems
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The Typology of Parts of Speech Systems
Author | : David Beck |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781136069147 |
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This book presents rigorous and criterial definitions of the major parts of speech - noun, verb, and adjective - that account both for their syntactic behaviour and for their observed typological variation. Based on an examination of languages from five different groups - Salishan, Cora, Quechua, Totonac, and Hausa - this book argues that parts of speech must be defined by combining the criteria of syntactic markedness, which characterizes lexical classes in terms of unmarked syntactic roles, and semantic prototypicality, which delimits their prototypical meanings. Adjectives are shown to be the marked (and, hence, most variable) class because of their inherent non-iconicity at the semantics/syntax interface. The four-member typology of parts of speech systems (languages with three open classes, those that group adjectives with verbs, those that group adjectives with nouns, and those that conflate all three) current in the literature is easily generated by free recombination of these two criterial features. Closer examination of the data, however, casts doubt on the existence of one of the four possible language-types, the noun-adjective conflating inventory, which is accounted here for by replacing free recombination of semantic and syntactic features with an algorithm for the subdivision of the lexicon that gives primacy to semantics over syntax.
The Typology of Parts of Speech Systems
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Author | : David Beck |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:869709086 |
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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.
Parts of Speech
Author | : Umberto Ansaldo,Jan Don,Roland Pfau |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027222558 |
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Parts of Speech are a central aspect of linguistic theory and analysis. Though a long-established tradition in Western linguistics and philosophy has assumed the validity of Parts of Speech in the study of language, there are still many questions left unanswered. For example, should Parts of Speech be treated as descriptive tools or are they to be considered universal constructs? Is it possible to come up with cross-linguistically valid formal categories, or are categories of language structure ultimately language-specific? Should they be defined semantically, syntactically, or otherwise? Do non-Indo-European languages reveal novel aspects of categorical assignment? This volume attempts to answer these and other fundamental questions for linguistic theory and its methodology by offering a range of contributions that spans diverse theoretical persuasions and contributes to our understanding of Parts of Speech with analyses of new data sets. These articles were originally published in "Studies in Language" 32:3 (2008).
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.
Language Typology and Syntactic Description Volume 1 Clause Structure
Author | : Timothy Shopen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1985-07-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521276594 |
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The three volumes of Language Typology and Syntactic Description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include parts of speech; passives; complementation; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; inflectional morphology; tense, aspect and mood; and deixis. The major ways these notions are realized in the languages of the world are explored, and the contributors provide brief sketches of relevant aspects of representative languages. Each volume is written in an accessible style with new concepts explained and exemplified as they are introduced. Although each volume can be read independently, together they provide a major work of reference that will serve as a manual for field workers and anyone interested in cross-linguistic generalizations.
Language Typology and Syntactic Description Volume 3
Author | : Timothy Shopen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1985-07-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521318998 |
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The three volumes of Language typology and syntactic description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include parts of speech; passives; complementation; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; inflectional morphology; tense; aspect and mood; and deixis. The major ways these notions are realized u=in the languages of the world are explored, and the contributors provide brief sketches of relevant aspects of representative languages. Each volume is written in an accessible style with new concepts explained and exemplified as they are introduced. Although each volume can be read independently, together they provide a major work of reference that will serve as a manual for field workers and anyone interested in cross-linguistic generalizations.
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.