Lexical categories : verbs, nouns, and adjectives

Mark C. Baker

For decades, generative linguistics has said little about the differences between verbs, nouns, and adjectives. This book seeks to fill this theoretical gap by presenting simple and substantive syntactic definitions of these three lexical categories. Mark C. Baker claims that the various superficial differences found in particular languages have a single underlying source which can be used to give better characterizations of these 'parts of speech'. These definitions are supported by data from languages from every continent, including English, Italian, Japanese, Edo, Mohawk, Chichewa, Quechua, Choctaw, Nahuatl, Mapuche, and several Austronesian and Australian languages. Baker argues for a formal, syntax-oriented, and universal approach to the parts of speech, as opposed to the functionalist, semantic, and relativist approaches that have dominated the few previous works on this subject. This book will be welcomed by researchers and students of linguistics and by related cognitive scientists of language.

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[目次]

  • Acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations
  • 1. The problem of the lexical categories
  • 2. Verbs as licensers of subjects
  • 3. Nouns as bearers of a referential index
  • 4. Adjectives as neither nouns nor verbs
  • 5. Lexical categories and the nature of the grammar
  • Appendix: Adpositions as functional categories
  • References
  • Index.

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書名 Lexical categories : verbs, nouns, and adjectives
著作者等 Baker, Mark C
シリーズ名 Cambridge studies in linguistics
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 2003
ページ数 xvi, 353 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0521806380
9780521001106
NCID BA6139588X
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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