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1 online resource (xiii, 479 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in language companion series,
0165-7763 ;
182
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Studies in language companion series ; v. 182.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
This book presents a collection of chapters on the nature, flexibility and acquisition of lexical categories. These long-debated issues are looked at anew by exploring the hypothesis of lexical polycategoriality -according to which lexical forms are not fully, or univocally, specified for lexical category- in a wide number of unrelated languages, and within different theoretical and methodological perspectives. Twenty languages are thoroughly analyzed. Apart from French, Arabic and Hebrew, the volume includes mostly understudied languages, spoken in New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, Amazonia, Meso- and North America. Resulting from a long-standing collaboration between leading international experts, this book brings under one cover new data analyses and results on word categories from the linguistic and acquisitional point of view. It will be of the utmost interest to researchers, teachers and graduate students in different fields of linguistics (morpho-syntax, semantics, typology), language acquisition, as well as psycholinguistics, cognition and anthropology. |
| Contents |
""Lexical Polycategoriality""; ""Editorial page""; ""Title page""; ""LCC data""; ""In memoriam to Melissa Bowerman""; ""Table of contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""List of contributors""; ""Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches""; ""Cross-linguistic and cross-theoretical analysis of polycategoriality""; ""1. Polycategoriality: Descriptive and theoretical issues""; ""1.1 Identical or zero-related forms and their interpretation""; ""1.2 What are the relevant criteria?""; ""1.2.1 Distributional properties"" |
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""1.2.2 Syntactic function""""1.2.3 Semantic predictability""; ""1.3 At which level(s) does polycategoriality apply?""; ""1.3.1 Cross-linguistic morphosyntactic properties and polycategoriality""; ""1.3.2 Diachronic changes""; ""2. Lexical categories in acquisition""; ""3. The contributions to this volume""; ""References""; ""Part 1. Polycategoriality""; ""The flexibility of the noun/verb distinction in the lexicon of Mandinka""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The basics of Mandinka morphosyntax""; ""2.1 Clause structure""; ""2.1.1 The prototypical transitive construction"" |
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""2.1.2 Intransitive predication""""2.1.3 Intransitive alignment, and the notions of subject and object""; ""2.1.4 Constraints on transitivity, passive and antipassive""; ""2.2 NP structure""; ""3. Nouns vs. verbs in the lexicon of Mandinka: Introductory remarks""; ""4. Verbal lexemes""; ""5. Verbo-nominal lexemes""; ""6. The semantics of verbo-nominal lexemes""; ""6.1 Semantic types of verbo-nominal lexemes""; ""6.2 Verbo-nominal lexemes and identificational predication""; ""6.3 Categorial flexibility and polysemy""; ""7. Nominal lexemes marginally used as verbs""; ""8. Conclusion"" |
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""2.4.2 Prototypical relations between semantic class and discourse pragmatic function""""2.4.3 Definition of the categorial property""; ""2.5 Function-Changing Morphology""; ""3. On the properties of lexical items""; ""3.1 Only three distinct properties""; ""3.2 Factors of individualisation for lexical entities""; ""3.3 Conclusion""; ""Acknowledgement""; ""References""; ""Categorial flexibility as an emergent phenomenon""; ""1. Introduction""; ""1.1 What is categorial flexibility?""; ""1.2 Where could categorial flexibility be found?""; ""1.3 Are roots real?"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Linguistic universals.
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Linguistic universals. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphosyntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphosyntax. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammatical categories.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammatical categories. |
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Semantics.
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Semantics. |
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Lexicology.
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Lexicology. |
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Typology (Linguistics)
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Typology (Linguistics) |
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Categorization (Linguistics)
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Categorization (Linguistics) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Vapnarsky, Valentina, editor.
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Veneziano, Edy, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lexical polycategoriality. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017] 9789027259479 (DLC) 2017003697 (OCoLC)976900408 |
| ISBN |
9789027265951 (pdf, ePub) |
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902726595X (pdf, ePub) |
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9789027259479 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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