Parts of Speech: Descriptive tools, theoretical constructs

Special Issue of Studies in Language 32:3 (2008)

Editors

Umberto Ansaldo | University of Amsterdam

Jan Don | University of Amsterdam

Roland Pfau | University of Amsterdam

[Studies in Language, 32:3] 2008. 246 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 9 September 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.32.3

Table of Contents

Articles
Parts of Speech: Particulars, universals and theoretical constructs Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau	505–508
Word classes in sign languages: Criteria and classifications Waldemar Schwager and Ulrike Zeshan	509–545
Roots, stems and word classes Christian Lehmann	546–567
Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech: The case of Late Archaic Chinese Walter Bisang	568–589
Covert word classes: Seeking your own syntax in Tukang Besi Mark Donohue	590–609
Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako-Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan Yulia Koloskova and Toshio Ohori	610–636
The acquisition of syntactic categories in Jakarta Indonesian David Gil	637–669
Possible phonological cues in categorial acquisition: Evidence from adult categorization Jan Don and Marian Erkelens	670–682
Lexical semantic constraints on noun roots and noun borrowability Lynn Nichols	683–700
Degree words, intensification, and word class distinctions in Romance languages Ventura Salazar-García	701–726
On flexible and rigid nouns Jan Rijkhoff	727–752
Parts of speech and dependent clauses in Functional Discourse Grammar Kees Hengeveld and Eva van Lier	753–785

Cited by (2)

Cited by two other publications

Combettes, Bernard & Anne Carlier

2015. Introduction. Langue française N° 187:3 ► pp. 5 ff.

Simone, Raffaele & Francesca Masini

2014. Introduction. In Word Classes [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 332], ► pp. 1 ff.

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Subjects and metadata

Linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Functional linguistics

Typology