1st Edition
The Typology of Parts of Speech Systems The Markedness of Adjectives
By David Beck
Copyright 2002
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Note on phonological transcriptions Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Definitions of lexical classes 2.1 Semantic characterizations 2.2 Morphological diagnostics 2.3 Syntactic distribution 2.4 Extended roles and syntactic markedness 2.4.1 Criteria for markedness 2.4.2 WFM and markedness 2.4.3 Rigid versus flexible languages 2.4.4 Measures of contextual markedness: De- and recategorization 2.4.5 Markedness and prototypical mappings 2.5 The semantics of parts of speech 2.5.1 Prototypicality and peripherality in lexical classification 2.5.2 Semantic NAMEs 2.5.3 Semantic predicates 2.5.4 Property concepts 2.5.5 HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS 2.5.6 Why semantic NAMEs are not linguistic predicates 2.5.7 Non-prototypical semantic predicates and implicit arguments 2.6 Syntactic markedness and semantic prototypes Chapter 3 Semantics, syntax, and the lexicon 3.1 Some basic terminology 3.2 Lexicalization and syntactic structure 3.3 Adjectives, markedness, and iconicity 3.4 Relations between semantic NAMEs: Attribution and possession 3.5 Minor lexical classes Chapter 4 Types of lexical inventory 4.1 Verb-Adjective conflating inventories 4.1.1 Noun, verb, and adjective in Salishan 4.1.1.1 Nominal predicates and nominal actants 4.1.1.2 Verbs as actants 4.1.1.3 Verbs as unmarked modifiers 4.1.1.3 Verbs as unmarked modifiers 4.1.2 Cora 4.1.2.1 Modification and relative clauses in Cora 4.1.2.2 Nouns and modification in Cora 4.1.2.3 Flexibility and rigidity as syntactic parameters 4.2 Noun-Adjective conflating inventories 4.2.1 Quechua 4.2.2 Upper Necaxa Totonac 4.2.2.1 Property concepts in Upper Necaxa 4.2.2.2 Adjectives and nouns as syntactic predicates 4.2.2.3 Adjectives as actants 4.2.2.4 Nouns as modifiers 4.2.2.5 Secondary diagnostics: Quantification and pluralization 4.2.3 Hausa 4.2.4 The N[AV] inventory reconsidered Chapter 5 Conclusions References Index
Biography
Beck, David
