Flexible word classes typological studies of underspecified parts of speech

This is a 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 co...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2013, 2013
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Summary:This is a 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
Physical Description:1 online resource illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:9780191748707