Function and class in linguistic description : the taxonomic foundations of grammar / Mário Alberto Perini.

This book deals with the traditional problem of the classification of linguistic units, with a primary focus on word classes. The approach is descriptive rather than theoretical, and is based on the use of distinctive features analogous to the ones used in phonology, which entails a radical reworkin...

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Main Author: Perini, Mário A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Part I: General Principles
  • Chapter 2: Categorization and knowledge
  • Chapter 3: Form and meaning
  • Chapter 4: Word classes
  • Chapter 5: Classes and the grammar
  • Chapter 6: Prototypes
  • Chapter 7: Assignment by default
  • Part II: Descriptive Application
  • Chapter 8: Classification of verbs
  • Chapter 9: Constructions of directional motion: a guided tour of valential complexity
  • Chapter 10: Functions and classes in the NP
  • Chapter 11: Towards a taxonomy of connectives
  • Chapter 12: Adverbs and their relatives
  • Chapter 13: Features and grammatical description
  • Chapter 14: Semantic correlations and syntactic features
  • Chapter 15: Beyond the lexicon
  • Chapter 16: Summary.