Flexible Word Classes: Typological Studies of Underspecified Parts of Speech

by Eva Van Lier

This book is the first major cross-linguistic study of 'flexible words', i.e. words that cannot be classified in terms of the traditional lexical categories Verb, Noun, Adjective or Adverb. Flexible words can - without special morphosyntactic marking - serve in functions for which other languages must employ members of two or more of the four traditional, 'specialised' word classes. Thus, flexible words are underspecified for communicative functions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199668442
• ISBN13: 9780199668441
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"