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Flexible Word Classes - Typological studies of underspecified parts of speech (Hardcover)
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Flexible Word Classes - Typological studies of underspecified parts of speech (Hardcover)
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This book is the first major cross-linguistic study of 'flexible
words', i.e. words that cannot be classified in terms of the
traditional lexical categories Verb, Noun, Adjective or Adverb.
Flexible words can - without special morphosyntactic marking -
serve in functions for which other languages must employ members of
two or more of the four traditional, 'specialised' word classes.
Thus, flexible words are underspecified for communicative functions
like 'predicating' (verbal function), 'referring' (nominal
function) or 'modifying' (a function typically associated with
adjectives and e.g. manner adverbs). Even though linguists have
been aware of flexible world classes for more than a century, the
phenomenon has not played a role in the development of linguistic
typology or modern grammatical theory. The current volume aims to
address this gap by offering detailed studies on flexible word
classes, investigating their properties and what it means for the
grammar of a language to have such a word class. It includes new
cross-linguistic studies of word class systems as well as original
descriptive and theoretical contributions from authors with an
expert knowledge of languages that have played - or should play - a
role in the debate about flexible word classes, including Kharia,
Riau Indonesian, Santali, Sri Lanka Malay, Lushootseed, Gooniyandi,
and Late Archaic Chinese.
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