| Description |
vi, 291 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Benjamins current topics ; v. 25 |
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Benjamins current topics ; v. 25.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 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-Garcia -- On flexible and rigid nouns / Jan Rijkhoff. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Parts of speech.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammatical categories.
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Linguistic universals.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ansaldo, Umberto.
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Don, Jan, 1963-
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Pfau, Roland.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9789027222558 (Hb ; alk. paper) |
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9789027287717 (electronic bk.) |
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