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