The Typology of Parts of Speech Systems: The Markedness of Adjectives

, by Beck,David

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ISBN: 9780415941556 | 0415941555
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Copyright: 5/31/2002

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Acknowledgements

vii

Abbreviations

Note on phonological transcriptions

Introduction

(8)

Definitions of lexical classes

(64)

Semantic characterizations

(2)

Morphological diagnostics

(4)

Syntactic distribution

(2)

Extended roles and syntactic markedness

(21)

Criteria for markedness

(3)

WFM and markedness

(4)

Rigid versus flexible languages

(3)

Measures of contextual markedness: De- and rectegorization

(5)

Markedness and prototypical mappings

(5)

The semantics of parts of speech

(30)

Prototypicality and peripherality in lexical classification

(3)

Semantic NAMEs

(3)

Semantic predictates

(4)

Property concepts

(2)

Human characteristics

(9)

Why semantic NAMEs are not linguistic predicates

(2)

Non-prototypical semantic predicates and implicit arguments

(6)

Syntactic markedness and semantic prototypes

(4)

Semantics, syntax, and the lexicon

(20)

Some basic terminology

(4)

Lexicalization and syntactic structure

(3)

Adjectives, markedness, and iconicity

(2)

Relations between semantic NAMEs: Attribution and possession

(6)

Minor lexical classes

(4)

Types of lexical inventory

(94)

Verb-Adjective conflating inventories

101

(39)

Noun, verb, and adjective in Salishan

103

(1)

Nominal predicates and nominal actants

104

(9)

Verbs as actants

113

(9)

Verbs as unmarked modifiers

122

(3)

Modification in Bella Coola

125

(6)

Cora

131

(1)

Modification and relative clauses in Cora

132

(2)

Nouns and modification in Cora

134

(3)

Flexibility and rigidity as syntactic parameters

137

(3)

Noun-Adjective conflating inventories

140

(49)

Quechua

142

(7)

Upper Necaxa Totonac

149

(1)

Property concepts in Upper Necaxa

150

(3)

Adjectives and nouns as syntactic predicates

153

(4)

Adjectives as actants

157

(5)

Nouns as modifiers

162

(4)

Secondary diagnostics: Quantification and pluralization

166

(6)

Hausa

172

(13)

The N[AV] inventory reconsidered

185

(4)

Conclusions

189

(16)

References

205

(8)

Index

213

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