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How Categorical are Categories? : New Approaches to the Old Questions of Noun, Verb, and Adjective / ed. by Joanna Blaszczak, Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Krzysztof Migdalski.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; 122Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (311 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781614516187
  • 9781501500909
  • 9781614514510
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- About the Editors -- The status of categories in the linguistic theory: Introduction -- Part I. Linguistic Categories – Nouns and Verbs -- Nouns, verbs, and verbal nouns: Their structures and their structural cases -- Nuu-chah-nulth nouns and verbs revisited: Root allomorphy and the structure of nominal predicates -- Noun and verb in the mind. An interdisciplinary approach -- Part II. Linguistic Categories – Nouns and Adjectives -- Categorial ambiguities within the noun phrase: Relational adjectives in Polish -- Degree modification across categories: Nouns vs. adjectives -- Definiteness and degree morphology -- Part III. Problematic Categories – Numerals and Clitics -- What are categories? Adjective-like and noun-like semi-lexical numerals in Polish -- Defining vs. diagnosing linguistic categories: A case study of clitic phenomena -- Name/Author Index -- Subject Index -- Language Index
Summary: This book addresses the foundational question of category distinctions and challenges the traditional views from the modern theoretical and experimental perspective. Its focus is on the noun-verb, noun-adjective distinctions and categories occupying the "grey zone" between standard categories (e.g., nominalizations). This book will be of interest for researchers and students of linguistics and cognitive sciences.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- About the Editors -- The status of categories in the linguistic theory: Introduction -- Part I. Linguistic Categories – Nouns and Verbs -- Nouns, verbs, and verbal nouns: Their structures and their structural cases -- Nuu-chah-nulth nouns and verbs revisited: Root allomorphy and the structure of nominal predicates -- Noun and verb in the mind. An interdisciplinary approach -- Part II. Linguistic Categories – Nouns and Adjectives -- Categorial ambiguities within the noun phrase: Relational adjectives in Polish -- Degree modification across categories: Nouns vs. adjectives -- Definiteness and degree morphology -- Part III. Problematic Categories – Numerals and Clitics -- What are categories? Adjective-like and noun-like semi-lexical numerals in Polish -- Defining vs. diagnosing linguistic categories: A case study of clitic phenomena -- Name/Author Index -- Subject Index -- Language Index

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This book addresses the foundational question of category distinctions and challenges the traditional views from the modern theoretical and experimental perspective. Its focus is on the noun-verb, noun-adjective distinctions and categories occupying the "grey zone" between standard categories (e.g., nominalizations). This book will be of interest for researchers and students of linguistics and cognitive sciences.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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