Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2000

Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes

Edited by: Petra M. Vogel and Bernard Comrie

Volume 23 in the series Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806120

Contents

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
I. General studies
A dynamic model of part-of-speech differentiation Jan Anward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Word classes and sentential functions D. N. S. Bhat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Parts of speech as language universals and as language-particular categories William Croft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Kinship verbs Nicholas Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Syntactic categories, cross-linguistic variation and universal grammar David Gil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
When can a language have adjectives? An implicational universal Jan Rijkhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Grammaticalisation and part-of-speech systems Petra M. Vogel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Lexical prototypes as a universal basis for cross-linguistic identification of “parts of speech” Anna Wierzbicka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
II. Language-specific studies
Modal particles in German: Word classification and legacy beyond grammaticalisation Werner Abraham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
The Tongan category of preverbials Jürgen Broschart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Identifying substantival and adjectival pronouns: A case study on German Monika Budde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Noun and verb in Iroquoian languages: Multicategorisation from multiple criteria Marianne Mithun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
Numeratives in Mandarin Chinese Robin Sackmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
Polynesian multifunctionality and the ambitions of linguistic description Arnfinn Muruvik Vonen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
Index of authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	489
Index of languages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	495
Index of subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Edition: Reprint 2012
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 514

eBook

Published: May 3, 2011
ISBN: 9783110806120

Hardcover

Published: December 16, 1999
ISBN: 9783110161021