Defining vs. diagnosing linguistic categories: A case study of clitic phenomena

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. About the Editors VII
4. The status of categories in the linguistic theory: Introduction 1
5. Part I. Linguistic Categories – Nouns and Verbs
6. Nouns, verbs, and verbal nouns: Their structures and their structural cases 13
7. Nuu-chah-nulth nouns and verbs revisited: Root allomorphy and the structure of nominal predicates 47
8. Noun and verb in the mind. An interdisciplinary approach 75
9. Part II. Linguistic Categories – Nouns and Adjectives
10. Categorial ambiguities within the noun phrase: Relational adjectives in Polish 115
11. Degree modification across categories: Nouns vs. adjectives 155
12. Definiteness and degree morphology 197
13. Part III. Problematic Categories – Numerals and Clitics
14. What are categories? Adjective-like and noun-like semi-lexical numerals in Polish 235
15. Defining vs. diagnosing linguistic categories: A case study of clitic phenomena 273
16. Name/Author Index 305
17. Subject Index 309
18. Language Index 311