The typology of parts of speech systems : the markedness of adjectives / David Beck.

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Beck, David, 1963-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Outstanding dissertations in linguisticsPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 219 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781136069062
1136069062
9780203475201
0203475208
9781136069222
1136069224
9781136069147
1136069143
9780415864992
0415864992

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Typology of parts of speech systems.DDC classification:

415 22

LOC classification:

P273 .B4 2002eb

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17.13

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Contents:

Ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Definitions of lexical classes -- ch. 3. Semantics, syntax, and the lexicon -- ch. 4. Types of lexical inventory -- ch. 5. Conclusions.

Summary: This book presents rigorous and criterial definitions of the major parts of speech - noun, verb, and adjective - that account both for their syntactic behaviour and for their observed typological variation. Based on an examination of languages from five different groups - Salishan, Cora, Quechua, Totonac, and Hausa - this book argues that parts of speech must be defined by combining the criteria of syntactic markedness, which characterizes lexical classes in terms of unmarked syntactic roles, and semantic prototypicality, which delimits their prototypical meanings. Adjectives are shown to be t.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.

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Ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Definitions of lexical classes -- ch. 3. Semantics, syntax, and the lexicon -- ch. 4. Types of lexical inventory -- ch. 5. Conclusions.

This book presents rigorous and criterial definitions of the major parts of speech - noun, verb, and adjective - that account both for their syntactic behaviour and for their observed typological variation. Based on an examination of languages from five different groups - Salishan, Cora, Quechua, Totonac, and Hausa - this book argues that parts of speech must be defined by combining the criteria of syntactic markedness, which characterizes lexical classes in terms of unmarked syntactic roles, and semantic prototypicality, which delimits their prototypical meanings. Adjectives are shown to be t.

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