Adjective Classes - A Cross-Linguistic Typology

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Explorations in Linguistic Typology Adjective Classes ...

Explorations in Linguistic Typology General Editors Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon Research Centre for Linguistic Ty ...

Adjective Classes A Cross-Linguistic Typology edited by R. M. W. DIXON and ALEXANDRA Y. AIKHENVALD Research Centre for Linguisti ...

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Contents Notes on the Contributors xii Abbreviations xvii 1 ADJECTIVE CLASSES IN TYPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE 1 R. M. W. Dixon 1 Word ...

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4 THE ADJECTIVE CLASS IN TARIANA 1 Preliminaries Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 2 Properties of verbs and nouns 3 Adjectives and their ...

Contents ix 13 Adjectives by any other name? Evidence for an independent class of attributive-only adjectives 358 References 361 ...

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Preface This volume includes a typological introduction, plus revised versions of fourteen of the sixteen presentations at the I ...

Notes on the contributors Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor and Associate Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typo ...

Notes on the contributors xiii Grammar, on Semantic Principles (Oxford University Press 1991, revised edition in preparation), a ...

xiv Notes on the contributors John Hajekis an Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian Stud- ies at the Unive ...

Notes on the contributors xv Nicole Kruspe, a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, is currently worki ...

xvi Notes on the contributors She is a former director of the West African Research Centre in Dakar, Senegal, and has taught at ...

List of abbreviations 1 2 second person 3 third person A transitive subject function A set A ABL ablative preposition ABS absolu ...

xviii List of abbreviations CAUS causative CC copula complement CERT certain CH clause chainer CL classifier CLAS noun classifie ...

List of abbreviations xix EXIST existential predicate EXP experience! fam familiar FEM, f feminine FOG. A/S focused subject FR f ...