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A dynamic model of part-of-speech differentiation

  • Jan Anward
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Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes
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© 2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Genthiner Str. 13, 10785 Berlin.

© 2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Genthiner Str. 13, 10785 Berlin.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. I. General studies
  3. A dynamic model of part-of-speech differentiation 3
  4. Word classes and sentential functions 47
  5. Parts of speech as language universals and as language-particular categories 65
  6. Kinship verbs 103
  7. Syntactic categories, cross-linguistic variation and universal grammar 173
  8. When can a language have adjectives? An implicational universal 217
  9. Grammaticalisation and part-of-speech systems 259
  10. Lexical prototypes as a universal basis for cross-linguistic identification of “parts of speech” 285
  11. II. Language-specific studies
  12. Modal particles in German: Word classification and legacy beyond grammaticalisation 321
  13. The Tongan category of preverbials 351
  14. Identifying substantival and adjectival pronouns: A case study on German 371
  15. Noun and verb in Iroquoian languages: Multicategorisation from multiple criteria 397
  16. Numeratives in Mandarin Chinese 421
  17. Polynesian multifunctionality and the ambitions of linguistic description 479
  18. Index of authors 489
  19. Index of languages 495
  20. Index of subjects 499
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806120.3

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. I. General studies
  3. A dynamic model of part-of-speech differentiation 3
  4. Word classes and sentential functions 47
  5. Parts of speech as language universals and as language-particular categories 65
  6. Kinship verbs 103
  7. Syntactic categories, cross-linguistic variation and universal grammar 173
  8. When can a language have adjectives? An implicational universal 217
  9. Grammaticalisation and part-of-speech systems 259
  10. Lexical prototypes as a universal basis for cross-linguistic identification of “parts of speech” 285
  11. II. Language-specific studies
  12. Modal particles in German: Word classification and legacy beyond grammaticalisation 321
  13. The Tongan category of preverbials 351
  14. Identifying substantival and adjectival pronouns: A case study on German 371
  15. Noun and verb in Iroquoian languages: Multicategorisation from multiple criteria 397
  16. Numeratives in Mandarin Chinese 421
  17. Polynesian multifunctionality and the ambitions of linguistic description 479
  18. Index of authors 489
  19. Index of languages 495
  20. Index of subjects 499
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