Beck The Typology of Parts of Speech Systems

The Markedness of Adjectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-06914-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beck, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note on phonological transcriptions
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Definitions of lexical classes 2.1 Semantic characterizations
2.2 Morphological diagnostics
2.3 Syntactic distribution
2.4 Extended roles and syntactic markedness
2.4.1 Criteria for markedness
2.4.2 WFM and markedness
2.4.3 Rigid versus flexible languages
2.4.4 Measures of contextual markedness: De- and recategorization
2.4.5 Markedness and prototypical mappings
2.5 The semantics of parts of speech
2.5.1 Prototypicality and peripherality in lexical classification
2.5.2 Semantic NAMEs
2.5.3 Semantic predicates
2.5.4 Property concepts
2.5.5 HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS
2.5.6 Why semantic NAMEs are not linguistic predicates
2.5.7 Non-prototypical semantic predicates and implicit arguments
2.6 Syntactic markedness and semantic prototypes
Chapter 3 Semantics, syntax, and the lexicon
3.1 Some basic terminology
3.2 Lexicalization and syntactic structure
3.3 Adjectives, markedness, and iconicity
3.4 Relations between semantic NAMEs: Attribution and possession
3.5 Minor lexical classes
Chapter 4 Types of lexical inventory
4.1 Verb-Adjective conflating inventories
4.1.1 Noun, verb, and adjective in Salishan
4.1.1.1 Nominal predicates and nominal actants
4.1.1.2 Verbs as actants
4.1.1.3 Verbs as unmarked modifiers
4.1.1.3 Verbs as unmarked modifiers
4.1.2 Cora
4.1.2.1 Modification and relative clauses in Cora
4.1.2.2 Nouns and modification in Cora
4.1.2.3 Flexibility and rigidity as syntactic parameters
4.2 Noun-Adjective conflating inventories
4.2.1 Quechua
4.2.2 Upper Necaxa Totonac
4.2.2.1 Property concepts in Upper Necaxa
4.2.2.2 Adjectives and nouns as syntactic predicates
4.2.2.3 Adjectives as actants
4.2.2.4 Nouns as modifiers
4.2.2.5 Secondary diagnostics: Quantification and pluralization
4.2.3 Hausa
4.2.4 The N[AV] inventory reconsidered
Chapter 5 Conclusions
References
Index