Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements vii
3. Contents ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Part One. General background
6. Chapter 1. Introduction 3
7. Chapter 2. Adjectival encoding in language: The standard approach 15
8. Chapter 3. Adjectival encoding in language: Nouniness and verbiness 43
9. Part Two. A typology of predicative adjectival constructions
10. Chapter 4. Preliminaries 73
11. Chapter 5. Nouny adjectivale in type-Α languages 115
12. Chapter 6. Verby adjectivale in type-Α languages 181
13. Chapter 7. Adjectival predication in type-B languages 231
14. Part Three. Towards an explanation of the nouny-verby split
15. Chapter 8. The Tense Hypothesis 267
16. Notes 331
17. Appendix A: Alphabetical listing of the sample 355
18. Appendix Β. Genetic and areal stratification of the sample 359
19. References 365
20. Index of languages 383
21. Index of names 387
22. Index of subjects 391