Polynesian multifunctionality and the ambitions of linguistic description

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. I. General studies
3. A dynamic model of part-of-speech differentiation 3
4. Word classes and sentential functions 47
5. Parts of speech as language universals and as language-particular categories 65
6. Kinship verbs 103
7. Syntactic categories, cross-linguistic variation and universal grammar 173
8. When can a language have adjectives? An implicational universal 217
9. Grammaticalisation and part-of-speech systems 259
10. Lexical prototypes as a universal basis for cross-linguistic identification of “parts of speech” 285
11. II. Language-specific studies
12. Modal particles in German: Word classification and legacy beyond grammaticalisation 321
13. The Tongan category of preverbials 351
14. Identifying substantival and adjectival pronouns: A case study on German 371
15. Noun and verb in Iroquoian languages: Multicategorisation from multiple criteria 397
16. Numeratives in Mandarin Chinese 421
17. Polynesian multifunctionality and the ambitions of linguistic description 479
18. Index of authors 489
19. Index of languages 495
20. Index of subjects 499