Function and class in linguistic description : the taxonomic foundations of grammar
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Function and class in linguistic description : the taxonomic foundations of grammar
Palgrave Macmillan : Springer Nature Switzerland, 2021
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Description
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 reworking of the traditional classification. The first part presents some basic notions such as the use of distinctive features and the role of word classes in grammar; classification by prototypes; and the use of world knowledge as a resource to assign thematic relations to constituents in the sentence. In the second part, some descriptive problems are examined, namely the classification of verbs according to valency; connectives, adverbs, and the internal constituents of the NP; and the classification of units larger than words. This book will be of use as a guide for linguists working on the description of natural languages, as well as a resource for students on courses in linguistic theory and description.
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
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