Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes / / ed. by Bernard Comrie, Petra M. Vogel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Abraham, Werner,; Anward, Jan,; Bhat, D. N. S.,; Broschart, Jürgen,; Budde, Monika,; Croft, William,; Evans, Nicholas,; Gil, David,; Mithun, Marianne,; Muruvik Vonen, Arnfinn,; Rijkhoff, Jan,; Sackmann, Robin,; Vogel, Petra M.,; Wierzbicka, Anna,
• HerausgeberIn: Comrie, Bernard,; Vogel, Petra M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 23
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (514 p.)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• I. General studies
• A dynamic model of part-of-speech differentiation
• Word classes and sentential functions
• Parts of speech as language universals and as language-particular categories
• Kinship verbs
• Syntactic categories, cross-linguistic variation and universal grammar
• When can a language have adjectives? An implicational universal
• Grammaticalisation and part-of-speech systems
• Lexical prototypes as a universal basis for cross-linguistic identification of “parts of speech”
• II. Language-specific studies
• Modal particles in German: Word classification and legacy beyond grammaticalisation
• The Tongan category of preverbials
• Identifying substantival and adjectival pronouns: A case study on German
• Noun and verb in Iroquoian languages: Multicategorisation from multiple criteria
• Numeratives in Mandarin Chinese
• Polynesian multifunctionality and the ambitions of linguistic description
• Index of authors
• Index of languages
• Index of subjects