The Typology of Parts of Speech Systems : the Markedness of Adjectives.

This book presents rigorous and criterial definitions of the major parts of speech - noun, verb, and adjective - that account both for their syntactic behaviour and for their observed typological variation. Based on an examination of languages from five different groups - Salishan, Cora, Quechua, To...

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Main Author: Beck, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Series:Outstanding dissertations in linguistics.
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