Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes

Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes
Author: Petra Maria Vogel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783110161021

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Word Classes

Word Classes
Author: Raffaele Simone
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027269769

The universal and typological status of the notion of word class — closely related to part-of-speech systems, morphology, syntax and the lexicon-syntax interface — continues to be of major linguistic theoretical interest. The papers included in this volume offer a fresh look at the variety of current theoretical and descriptive approaches to word class issues, and present original analyses and new data from a number of languages. The primary focus is on methods (including computational ones) and criteria for identifying and representing major word classes and subclasses in specific languages, with considerable attention also directed towards the characterization of the nature and role of minor — or neglected — word classes, including trans-categorization processes. The range of topics and perspectives covered makes this volume of considerable interest to both theoretical linguists and typologists.

Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes

Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes
Author: Petra M. Vogel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2011-05-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110806126

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Flexible Word Classes

Flexible Word Classes
Author: Jan Rijkhoff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2013-08-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199668442

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. It includes new cross-linguistic studies of word class systems as well as original descriptive and theoretical contributions.

Adjective Classes

Adjective Classes
Author: R.M.W. Dixon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2004-09-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199270937

This book shows that every language has an adjective class and how such classes vary. Thirteen scholars report original research on languages from North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The book throws new light on the nature and classification of adjectives and redefines the cross-linguistic parameters of their variation.

Verbs, Clauses and Constructions

Verbs, Clauses and Constructions
Author: Raquel Vea Escaza
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2018-11-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1527522156

This volume brings together a collection of twenty contributions which offer a diversity of methodological tools and analytical issues concerning the study of different aspects of the role of verbs, clauses and constructions in a rich variety of languages such as Present-Day English, Old English, Old Saxon, French, Spanish, Arabic, German, Upper Sorbian, Latvian, Sino-Tibetan, and the Australian dialects Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra. The use of empirical data and the wide range of languages are the two main challenges addressed here. The book will serve to contribute to current literature on functional-oriented linguistics, incorporating linguistic typology, and corpus-based and contrastive perspectives. The volume is divided into three main parts. The first brings together eight contributions centrally related to the category of the verb both from a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The second part consists of five chapters which revolve around the syntax and semantics of clauses. Finally, the seven essays in the third section explore different formal and functional aspects of the study of constructions in an assortment of languages.

The Grammar Network

The Grammar Network
Author: Holger Diessel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2019-08-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108498817

Provides a dynamic network model of grammar that explains how linguistic structure is shaped by language use.

Neo-Firthian Approaches to Linguistic Typology

Neo-Firthian Approaches to Linguistic Typology
Author: William McGregor
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
Total Pages:
Release: 2021
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781781796689

Neo-Firthian theories - which include Systemic Functional Linguistics and its congeners - have, unlike other functionally oriented theories, engaged minimally with linguistic typology and have made little impact on the wider discipline. This book offers a programmatic and Neo-Firthian informed typological investigation that points to potential mutual enrichments of linguistic typology and Neo-Firthian theories.On the one hand, this book identifies the inadequacies of the dominant 'atheoretical' approaches to linguistic typology, and shows how these can be circumvented through a firm foundation in a Neo-Firthian theoretical framework. On the other hand, it contends that Neo-Firthian approaches must take typology seriously as a criterion of theoretical adequacy, and be able to account for the full range of grammatical phenomena and their variation across languages, as well as those features that are universal. Case studies illustrate this argument through a selection of grammatical phenomena - in particular, grammatical relations, the noun phrase, complex sentence constructions, optional case marking and grammatical classification.This book will be of interest to typologists, and well as to linguistics working within Systemic Functional Linguistics and other functional theories.

Classifiers

Classifiers
Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2000-03-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0191543985

Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. Languages of South-East Asia have classifiers used with numerals, while most Indo-European languages have two or three genders. They can have a similar meaning and one can develop from the other. This book provides a comprehensive and original analysis of noun categorization devices all over the world. It will interest typologists, those working in the fields of morphosyntactic variation and lexical semantics, as well as anthropologists and all other scholars interested in the mechanisms of human cognition.