The Typology of Parts of Speech Systems - The Markedness of Adjectives (Hardcover)

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 characterises lexical classes in terms of unmarked syntactic roles and semantic prototypicality, which delimits their prototypical meanings.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
Release date:	May 2002
First published:	2002
Authors:	David Beck
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-94155-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
LSN:	0-415-94155-5
Barcode:	9780415941556

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