Index of names

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword and acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. Types of word classes
6. Carving verb classes from corpora 17
7. Classes of creation verbs 37
8. On Light Nouns 51
9. The ‘new adjectives’ of Tswana 75
10. The Chinese adjective as a word class 95
11. Qualifying modifier encoding and adjectival typology 119
12. PART II. Minor and neglected word classes
13. Hungarian is a classifier language 141
14. Cardinal numerals 161
15. On the borders of neglected word classes 181
16. PART III. Across word classes
17. Between adjective and noun 203
18. On decategorization and its relevance in German 227
19. PART IV. Radical views: Do we really need word classes?
20. Word-class features and reduplicative meaning 245
21. Half and other unique words 263
22. Index of languages 283
23. Index of names 285
24. Index of subjects 289