Adjective Classes - A Cross-Linguistic Typology
xx List of abbreviations NEGJMP NEUT nf NK NO NOM NOM. PAST NONPROX NONVIS NP NR nsg NUMCL O OBJ O. BRO OFOC OR ORD ORDIN P PASS ...
List of abbreviations xxi RDP light syllable reduplication of verbs REAL realis mood particle RECIP reciprocal REG. P recent pas ...
xxii Contents VP verb phrase XS excessive agent Y. SIB younger sibling ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective R. M. W. Dixon This chapter is concerned with adjectives in the narrow sense—that ...
2 R.M.W. Dixon human language: nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Each has (a) a prototypical concep- tual basis; and (b) prototypica ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 3 Word classes can be identified between languages (and assigned the same names) ...
4 R.M.W. Dixon VALUE—good', 'bad', 'lovely', 'atrocious', 'perfect', 'proper(/real)', etc. (And also words such as 'odd', 'stra ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 5 between the core and peripheral types. For example, Blackwell (2000) studied ho ...
6 R.M.W. Dixon TABLE i. Basic clause types an intransitive predicate may be a verb or an adjective or a noun or a pronoun or eve ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 7 A, S, CS focus marker -ne (optional) — O, non-core arguments — topical non-subj ...
8 R.M.W. Dixon People who talk of the copula complement being (all or part of) the predicate of a copula clause would say that ( ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 9 (6) [go:&-ma:]INTRANSITIVEPREDICATE man-3sg:iNDiCATiVE be.large-suBjECT.MAR ...
10 R. M. W. Dixon languages have an open class of adjectives (although this is always considerably smaller than the noun class, ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 11 complement, see Bolinger 1967.) There are also languages in which the entire c ...
12 R. M. W. Dixon in which, at first blush, nouns and verbs appear to function alike; however, in every instance, a careful and ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 13 Australian languages are like the languages of Europe in that adjectives have ...
14 R. M. W. Dixon is often an unwillingness to use the label 'adjectives', simply because these adjec- tives are so different in ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 15 some languages whose adjectives have neither of these functions, being confine ...
16 R. M. W. Dixon 6.1.1. Different possibilities within the predicate slot In some languages exactly the same morphological proc ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 17 Adjectives may have wider possibilities than verbs. For example, in Fijian the ...
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