In:Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches
Edited by Valentina Vapnarsky and Edy Veneziano
[Studies in Language Companion Series 182] 2017
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Published online: 1 November 2017
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Table of contents
Acknowledgmentsix
List of contributorsxi
Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches. An introduction1
Valentina Vapnarsky
Edy Veneziano
Part IPolycategoriality: The where and how of flexibility
The flexibility of the noun/verb distinction in the lexicon of Mandinka (Mande)35
Denis Creissels
Derivationally Based Homophony in French59
Françoise Kerleroux
Categorial flexibility as an emergent phenomenon: A comparison of Arabic, Wolof and French79
Alain Kihm
Part IIPolycategoriality across Amerindian languages: From words to roots
Polycategoriality and hybridity across Mayan language: Action nouns and ergative splits101
Ximena Lois
Valentina Vapnarsky
Cédric Becquey
Aurore Monod Becquelin
Polycategoriality and Zero derivation : Insights from Central Alaskan Yup’ik Eskimo155
Marianne Mithun
What determines constraints on the relationships between roots and lexical categories? Evidence from Choctaw and Cherokee175
Haag
Marcia
Part IIIPolycategoriality across Austronesian and Australian languages: Function and typology
Lexical and syntactic categories in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia) and some other Austronesian languages: Fluid vs. rigid categoriality207
Isabelle Bril
Two classes of verbs in Northern Australian languages: Implications for the typology of polycategoriality243
Eva Schultze-Berndt
Part IVLinguistic analysis in the light of acquisition data
The ontology of roots and the emergence of nouns and verbs in Kuikuro: Adult speech and children’s acquisition275
Bruna Franchetto
Mara Santos
Flexibles and polyvalence in Ku Waru: A developmental perspective307
Francesca Merlan
Alan Rumsey
Word class distinctiveness versus polycategoriality in Modern Hebrew: Typological and psycholinguistic perspectives343
Ruth Berman
Part VLexical categories and polycategoriality in acquisition
Noun and Verb categories in acquisition: Evidence from fillers and inflectional morphology in French-acquiring children381
Edy Veneziano
Semantic discrimination of noun/verb categories in French children aged 1;6 to 2;11413
Christophe Parisse
Caroline Rossi
The acquisition of action nouns in Yucatec Maya443
Barbara Pfeiler
Author index467
Language index473
Subject index475
