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Author Blaszczak, Joanna

Title How Categorical are Categories? : New Approaches to the Old Questions of Noun, Verb, and Adjective
Published De Gruyter, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (323 pages)
Series Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; v. 122
Studies in Generative Grammar SGG
Contents ÃĀ̂"¿Table of Contents -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- The status of categories in the linguistic theory: Introduction -- Part I. Linguistic Categories ÃØâ?Ơ“ Nouns and Verbs -- Nouns, verbs, and verbal nouns: Their structures and their structural cases
Nuu-chah-nulth nouns and verbs revisited: Root allomorphy and the structure of nominal predicates Noun and verb in the mind. An interdisciplinary approach -- Part II. Linguistic Categories ÃØâ?Ơ“ Nouns and Adjectives
Categorial ambiguities within the noun phrase: Relational adjectives in Polish Definiteness and degree morphology -- Part III. Problematic Categories ÃØâ?Ơ“ Numerals and Clitics -- What are categories? Adjective-like and noun-like semi-lexical numerals in Polish
Defining vs. diagnosing linguistic categories: A case study of clitic phenomena Name/Author Index -- Subject Index -- Language Index
Summary This book addresses the foundational question of category distinctions and challenges the traditional views from the modern theoretical and experimental perspective. Its focus is on the noun-verb, noun-adjective distinctions and categories occupying the ""grey zone"" between standard categories (e.g., nominalizations). This book will be of interest for researchers and students of linguistics and cognitive sciences
Analysis Experimental Approaches
Linguistic Categories
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization.
Categorial grammar.
Language, Universal.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Categorial grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization
Language, Universal
Kategorialgrammatik.
Generativ grammatik.
Form Electronic book
Author Klimek-Jankowska, Dorota
Migdalski, Krzysztof
ISBN 9781614514510
1614514518
9781501500909
1501500902