Cover not available

Introduction published In: Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages
Edited by Eva van Lier
[Studies in Language 41:2] 2017
► pp. 241–254

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload PDF
authorization required

Introduction

Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages

 | University of Amsterdam
Published online: 5 October 2017
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.41.2.01van
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Lexical flexibility: General terminological and theoretical issues
    • 2.1Definitions – categorial flexibility and multifunctionality
    • 2.2Lexical flexibility and cross-linguistic comparison
    • 2.3The semantics of lexical flexibility: Compositionality and other criteria
    • 2.4Flexibility of function words
    • 2.5Summary
  • 3.Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages
    • Overview of contributions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
References (47)
References
Ansaldo, Umberto, Jan Don & Roland Pfau (eds.). 2010. Parts of speech. Empirical and theoretical advances. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Arad, Maya. 2005. Roots and patterns. Hebrew morpho-syntax. Dordrecht: Springer.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Arka, Wayan. 2014. Categorial multifunctionality in Flores languages: descriptive, typological, and theoretical issues. Lecture slides.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Bauer, Laurie. 2008. Derivational morphology. Language and Linguistics Compass 2(1). 196–210. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Bisang, Walter. 2008. Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech: The case of Late Archeic Chinese. In Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don & Roland Pfau (eds.), Parts of speech. Empirical and theoretical advances, 65–86. Amsterdam: Benjamins.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Bril, Isabelle. 2017. Lexical and syntactic categories in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia) and some other Austronesian languages: fluid vs. rigid categoriality. In Vapnarsky, Valentina & Edy Valenziano (eds.), Lexical poly-categoriality: cross-linguistics, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches, 343–397. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Broschard, Jürgen. 1997. ‘Why Tongan does it differently. Categorial distinctions in a language without nouns and verbs’. Linguistic Typology 1(2). 123–165.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Chung, Sandra. 2012. Are lexical categories universal? The view from Chamorro. Theoretical Linguistics 38 (1/2). 1–56. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Churchward, Maxwell C. 1953. Tongan grammar. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Cristofaro, Sonia. 2009. Grammatical categories and relations: Universality vs. language-specificity and construction-specificity. Language and Linguistics Compass 3(1). 441–479. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Croft, William. 2001. Radical construction grammar: Syntactic theory in typological perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Croft, William & Eva van Lier. 2012. Language universals without universal categories. Theoretical Linguistics 38(1/2). 57–72.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Davis, Karen. 2003. A grammar of the Hoava language, western Solomons. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(ed.). 1991. Vivinei ruruhu pa Hoava: custom stories from Hoava. Gizo: Western Province Government.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Don, Jan & Eva van Lier. 2013. Derivation and categorization in flexible and differentiated languages. In Jan Rijkhoff and Eva van Lier (eds.), Flexible word classes: a typological study of underspecified parts-of-speech, 56–88. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Evans, Nicholas & Toshiki Osada. 2005. Mundari: the myth of a language without word classes. Linguistic Typology 9(3). 351–390.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Evans, Nicholas & Stephen Levinson. 2009. The myth of language universals. Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 321. 429–448. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Foley, William. 1998. Symmetrical voice systems and precategoriality in Philippine languages. Paper read at the 3rd LFG conference. Brisbane (Australia), 20 June – 3 July 1998.
. 2014. Drift and contact in the categorization of word classes in Oceanic languages. Paper read at Workshop on Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages, Amsterdam, October 2014.
Franchetto, Bruna & Mara Santos. 2017. The emergence of nouns and verbs in Kuikoro. In Valentina Vapnarsky & Edy Valenziano (eds), Lexical poly-categoriality: cross-linguistics, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches, 452–467. Amsterdam: Benjamins.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gil, David. 2013. Riau Indonesian: a language without nouns and verbs. In Jan Rijkhoff & Eva van Lier (eds.), Flexible word classes: a typological study of underspecified parts-of-speech, 89–130. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Halle, M. & Alec Marantz. 1993. Distributed morphology and the pieces of inflection. In K. Hale & S. J. Keyser (eds.), The view from building 20, 111–176 Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Haspelmath, Martin. 2007. Pre-established categories don’t exist: consequences for language description and typology. Linguistic typology 11(1).119–132. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2012. How to compare major word-classes across the world’s languages. In Thomas Graf, Denis Paperno, Anna Szabolcsi & Jos Tellings (eds.), Theories of everything: in honor of Edward Keenan (UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, 17), 109–130. Los Angeles: UCLA.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hengeveld, Kees. 1992. Non-verbal predication: theory, typology, diachrony (Functional Grammar Series 15). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2013. Parts-of-speech system as a basic typological determinant. In Jan Rijkhoff & Eva van Lier (eds.), Flexible word classes: typological studies of underspecified parts of speech, 31–55. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hengeveld, Kees & Jan Rijkhoff. 2005. Mundari as a flexible language. Linguistic typology 9(3). 406–431.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Himmelmann, Nikolaus. 2007. Lexical categories and voice in Tagalog. In Peter Austin & Simon Musgrave (eds.), Voice and grammatical relations in Austronesian languages, 246–293. Stanford: CSLI Publications.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Jones, Allan. 1998: Towards a lexicogrammar of Mekeo (an Austronesian language of West Central Papua) (Pacific Linguistics Series C-138). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lehmann, Christian. 2010. Roots, stems and word classes. In Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don & Roland Pfau (eds.), Parts of speech. Empirical and theoretical advances, 65–86. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2014. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Seventeenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. [URL] (Accessed on 2015-02-16).
Lichtenberk, Frantisek. 1991. Semantic change and heterosemy in grammaticalization. Language 67(3). 475–509. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2008. A grammar of Toqabaqita. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lois, Ximena, Valentina Vapnarsky, Cédric Becquey & Aurore Monod Becquelin. 2017. Poly-categoriality and hybridity across Mayan Languages: Action nouns and ergative splits. In Valentina Vapnarsky & Edy Veneziano (eds), Lexical Polycategoriality, 101–154. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. 2002. The Oceanic languages. London: Routledge.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Merlan, Francesca & Allan Rumsey. 2017. Flexibles and polyvalence in Ku Waru. In Valentina Vapnarsky & Edy Valenziano (eds), Lexical poly-categoriality: cross-linguistics, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches, 502–567. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mithun, Marianne. 2017. Polycategoriality and zero derivation: Insights from Central Alaskan Yup’ik Eskimo. In Valentina Vapnarsky & Edy Valenziano (eds), Lexical poly-categoriality: cross-linguistics, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches, 251–289. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mosel, Ulrike & Even Hovdhaugen. 1992. Samoan reference grammar. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Rijkhoff, Jan & Eva van Lier (eds.). 2013. Flexible word classes. Typological studies of underspecified parts of speech. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Ross, Malcolm. 1998. Proto-Oceanic adjectival categories and their morphosyntax. Oceanic Linguistics 37(1). 85–119. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2004. The morphosyntactic typology of Oceanic languages. Language and Linguistics 5(2). 491–541.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Van Lier, Eva. 2009. Parts of speech and dependent clauses: a typological study. Utrecht: LOT.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2012. Reconstructing multifunctionality. Theoretical Linguistics 38(1/2). 119–136.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2016. Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages. Linguistic Typology 20(2). 197–232. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
, forthcoming. The typology of property words in Oceanic languages. Linguistics 2017.
Van Lier, Eva & Jan Rijkhoff. 2013. Flexible word classes in linguistic typology and grammatical theory. In Jan Rijkhoff & Eva van Lier (eds.), Flexible word classes: a typological study of underspecified parts-of-speech, 1–30. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Cited by (2)

Cited by two other publications

Alfieri, Luca
2021. Parts of speech, comparative concepts and Indo-European linguistics. In Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology [Typological Studies in Language, 132], ► pp. 313 ff. DOI logo
van Lier, Eva & Marlou van Rijn
2018. Alienability splits in action nominal constructions. STUF - Language Typology and Universals 71:4 ► pp. 631 ff. DOI logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 3 december 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue