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Adjective Classes - A Cross-Linguistic Typology

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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 properties

    • 4 Semantic overlap

    • 5 Summary

    • References

    • 5 ADJECTIVES IN MAM

      • 1 General grammatical characteristics of Mam Nora C. England

      • 2 The grammar of adjectives

      • 3 Semantics

      • 4 Conclusions

      • References





  • 6 ADJECTIVES IN PAPANTLA TOTONAC

    • 1 The language Paulette Levy

    • 2 Syntax

    • 3 Word formation and semantic classes

    • 4 Deadjectival derivations

    • 5 Conclusion

    • References

    • 7 THE SMALL ADJECTIVE CLASS IN JARAWARA

      • 1 Clause structure R. M. W. Dixon

      • 2 Predicate structure

      • 3 Word classes

      • 4 Noun phrase structure

      • 5 The adjective class

      • 6 Summary

      • References



    • 8 THE RUSSIAN ADJECTIVE: A PERVASIVE YET ELUSIVE CATEGORY

      • 1 Introduction Greville G. Corbett

      • 2 Typological profile of Russian

      • 3 Canonical Russian adjectives

      • 4 Identifying the adjective (syntax and sources)

      • 5 Properties of inflectional morphology

      • 6 The derivational potential of adjectives

      • 7 Further syntactic properties of adjectives

        • 8 Adjectives as a canonical category Contents vii

        • 9 Usage

        • 10 Semantic types

        • 11 Adjectival outliers

        • 12 Conclusion



      • Sources for examples

      • References

      • 9 THE ADJECTIVE CLASS IN KOREAN

        • 1 A typological profile of Korean Ho-min Sohn

        • 2 The adjective class in Korean

        • 3 Grammatical properties of the adjective class

        • 4 Semantics of the adjective class

          • 5 Conclusion



        • References







  • 10 Is THERE AN ADJECTIVE CLASS IN WOLOF?

    • 1 Introduction Fiona Mc Laughlin

    • 2 The verbal system of Wolof

    • 3 Relative clauses

    • 4 Adjectival verbs

      • 5 Summary and conclusions



    • References

    • 11 ADJECTIVES IN NORTH-EAST AMBAE

      • 1 Lolovoli, North-East Ambae, Vanuatu Catriona Hyslop

      • 2 Typological profile

      • 3 The class

      • 4 Criteria for distinguishing adjectives from other verb classes

      • 5 Marking the same for adjectives and active verbs

      • 6 Semantic types

      • 7 Word class overlap

      • 8 Ordering of adjectives in the NP

      • 9 Adjectives as predicate vs. attribute

      • 10 Conclusion

      • References





  • 12 ADJECTIVES IN SEMELAI

    • 1 Introduction Nicole Kruspe

    • 2 Typological profile

    • 3 The adjective class in Semelai





    • 4 Grammatical properties viii Contents

    • 5 The semantic content of the adjective class

    • 6 Expressives

    • 7 The ordering of adjectives

    • 8 Conclusion

    • References

    • 13 ADJECTIVES IN QIANG

      • 1 Introduction Randy J. LaPolla and Chenglong Huang

      • 2 Semantics

      • 3 Functioning as predicate

      • 4 Functioning as head of an NP

      • 5 Functioning as modifier of a noun

      • 6 Adverbial modification of adjectives

      • 7 Adverbial phrases

      • 8 Summary

      • References





  • 14 ADJECTIVES IN LAO

    • 1 Introductory remarks on Lao N. J. Enfield

    • 2 Preliminaries on nominals and noun phrase structure

    • 3 The class of verbs in Lao

    • 4 Characteristics of the adjective sub-class of verbs

    • 5 Derivation

    • 6 Conclusion

    • References

    • 15 ADJECTIVE CLASSES: WHAT CAN WE CONCLUDE?

      • 1 Introduction John Hajek

        • in the Asia-Pacific region 2 Eurocentrism, and descriptive tradition



      • 3 Adjectives in languages described in this volume

      • 4 Intransitive predicate vs. copula (and verbless clauses)

      • 5 Negation and adjectives

      • 6 Comparative

      • 7 Intensifier

      • 8 Reduplication

      • 9 Adjectives functioning as head of noun phrase

      • 10 Noun phrase modification

      • 11 Size and openness of adjective (sub-)classes

        • with adjective type 12 Head- vs. dependent-marking and correlation







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