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Parts of speech [electronic resource] : empirical and theoretical advances / edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau.

Contributor(s): Ansaldo, Umberto | Don, Jan, 1963- | Pfau, Roland | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Benjamins current topics: v. 25.Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010Description: vi, 291 p. : ill.Subject(s): Parts of speech | Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammatical categories | Linguistic universalsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 415 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Parts of Speech: Particulars, universals and theoretical constructs / Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau -- Word classes in sign languages: Criteria and classifications / Waldemar Schwager and Ulrike Zeshan -- Roots, stems and word classes / Christian Lehmann -- Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech: The case of Late Archaic Chinese / Walter Bisang -- Covert word classes: Seeking your own syntax in Tukang Besi / Mark Donohue -- Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan / Yulia Koloskova and Toshio Ohori -- The acquisition of syntactic categories in Jakarta Indonesian / David Gil -- Possible phonological cues in categorial acquisition Evidence from adult categorization /Jan Don and Marian Erkelens -- Lexical semantic constraints on noun roots and noun borrowability / Lynn Nichols -- Degree words, intensification, and word class distinctions in Romance languages / Ventura Salazar-García -- On flexible and rigid nouns / Jan Rijkhoff.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Parts of Speech: Particulars, universals and theoretical constructs / Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau -- Word classes in sign languages: Criteria and classifications / Waldemar Schwager and Ulrike Zeshan -- Roots, stems and word classes / Christian Lehmann -- Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech: The case of Late Archaic Chinese / Walter Bisang -- Covert word classes: Seeking your own syntax in Tukang Besi / Mark Donohue -- Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan / Yulia Koloskova and Toshio Ohori -- The acquisition of syntactic categories in Jakarta Indonesian / David Gil -- Possible phonological cues in categorial acquisition Evidence from adult categorization /Jan Don and Marian Erkelens -- Lexical semantic constraints on noun roots and noun borrowability / Lynn Nichols -- Degree words, intensification, and word class distinctions in Romance languages / Ventura Salazar-García -- On flexible and rigid nouns / Jan Rijkhoff.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.