Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. List of contributors xi
5. Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches 1
6. Part I. Polycategoriality
7. The flexibility of the noun/verb distinction in the lexicon of Mandinka 35
8. Derivationally based homophony in French 59
9. Categorial flexibility as an emergent phenomenon 79
10. Part II. Polycategoriality across Amerindian languages
11. Polycategoriality and hybridity across Mayan languages 101
12. Polycategoriality and zero derivation 155
13. What determines constraints on the relationships between roots and lexical categories? 175
14. Part III. Polycategoriality across Austronesian and Australian languages
15. Lexical and syntactic categories in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia) and some other Austronesian languages 207
16. Two classes of verbs in Northern Australian languages 243
17. Part IV. Linguistic analysis in the light of acquisition data
18. The ontology of roots and the emergence of nouns and verbs in Kuikuro 275
19. Flexibles and polyvalence in Ku Waru 307
20. Word class distinctiveness versus polycategoriality in Modern Hebrew 343
21. Part V. Lexical categories and polycategoriality in acquisition
22. Noun and Verb categories in acquisition 381
23. Semantic discrimination of Noun/Verb categories in French children aged 1;6 to 2;11 413
24. The acquisition of action nouns in Yucatec Maya 443
25. Author index 467
26. Language index 473
27. Subject index 475