Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Parts-of-Speech: Particulars, universals and theoretical constructs 1
4. Word classes in sign languages: Criteria and classifications 5
5. Roots, stems and word classes 43
6. Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech 65
7. Covert word classes: Seeking your own syntax in Tukang Besi 87
8. Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako-Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan 107
9. The acquisition of syntactic categories in Jakarta Indonesian 135
10. Possible phonological cues in categorial acquisition: Evidence from adult categorization 169
11. Lexical semantic constraints on noun roots and noun borrowability 183
12. Degree words, intensification, and word class distinctions in romance languages 201
13. On flexible and rigid nouns 227
14. Parts of speech and dependent clauses in Functional Discourse Grammar 253
15. Languag index 287
16. Subject index 289