The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes
This handbook explores multiple facets of the study of word classes, also known as parts of speech or lexical categories. These categories are of fundamental importance to linguistic theory and description, both formal and functional, and for both language-internal analyses and cross-linguistic comparison. The volume consists of five parts that investigate word classes from different angles. Chapters in the first part address a range of fundamental issues including diversity and unity in word classes around the world, categorization at different levels of structure, the distinction between lexical and functional words, and hybrid categories. Part II examines the treatment of word classes across a wide range of contemporary linguistic theories, such as Cognitive Grammar, Minimalist Syntax, and Lexical Functional Grammar, while the focus of Part III is on individual word classes, from major categories such as verb and noun to minor ones such as adpositions and ideophones. Part IV provides a number of cross-linguistic case studies, exploring word classes in families including Afroasiatic, Sinitic, Mayan, Austronesian, and in sign languages. Chapters in the final part of the book discuss word classes from the perspective of various sub-disciplines of linguistics, ranging from first and second language acquisition to computational and corpus linguistics. Together, the contributions showcase the importance of word classes for the whole discipline of linguistics, while also highlighting the many ongoing debates in the areas and outlining fruitful avenues for future research.
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The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes
This handbook explores multiple facets of the study of word classes, also known as parts of speech or lexical categories. These categories are of fundamental importance to linguistic theory and description, both formal and functional, and for both language-internal analyses and cross-linguistic comparison. The volume consists of five parts that investigate word classes from different angles. Chapters in the first part address a range of fundamental issues including diversity and unity in word classes around the world, categorization at different levels of structure, the distinction between lexical and functional words, and hybrid categories. Part II examines the treatment of word classes across a wide range of contemporary linguistic theories, such as Cognitive Grammar, Minimalist Syntax, and Lexical Functional Grammar, while the focus of Part III is on individual word classes, from major categories such as verb and noun to minor ones such as adpositions and ideophones. Part IV provides a number of cross-linguistic case studies, exploring word classes in families including Afroasiatic, Sinitic, Mayan, Austronesian, and in sign languages. Chapters in the final part of the book discuss word classes from the perspective of various sub-disciplines of linguistics, ranging from first and second language acquisition to computational and corpus linguistics. Together, the contributions showcase the importance of word classes for the whole discipline of linguistics, while also highlighting the many ongoing debates in the areas and outlining fruitful avenues for future research.
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This handbook explores multiple facets of the study of word classes, also known as parts of speech or lexical categories. These categories are of fundamental importance to linguistic theory and description, both formal and functional, and for both language-internal analyses and cross-linguistic comparison. The volume consists of five parts that investigate word classes from different angles. Chapters in the first part address a range of fundamental issues including diversity and unity in word classes around the world, categorization at different levels of structure, the distinction between lexical and functional words, and hybrid categories. Part II examines the treatment of word classes across a wide range of contemporary linguistic theories, such as Cognitive Grammar, Minimalist Syntax, and Lexical Functional Grammar, while the focus of Part III is on individual word classes, from major categories such as verb and noun to minor ones such as adpositions and ideophones. Part IV provides a number of cross-linguistic case studies, exploring word classes in families including Afroasiatic, Sinitic, Mayan, Austronesian, and in sign languages. Chapters in the final part of the book discuss word classes from the perspective of various sub-disciplines of linguistics, ranging from first and second language acquisition to computational and corpus linguistics. Together, the contributions showcase the importance of word classes for the whole discipline of linguistics, while also highlighting the many ongoing debates in the areas and outlining fruitful avenues for future research.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780192594365
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 11/22/2023
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 992
File size: 31 MB
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About the Author

Eva van Lier is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. She obtained her PhD from the same institute in 2009 with a typological study of word classes and dependent clause constructions. Later, she authored and (co-)edited several publications on (flexible) word classes, especially in Oceanic languages, including Flexible Word Classes: Typological Studies of Underspecified Parts of Speech (with Jan Rijkhoff; OUP 2013). She has also worked on the typology of ditransitive verbs, action nominalizations, and noun incorporation, and is currently leading a project about alternating verbs across languages.

Table of Contents

  • 1: Eva van Lier: Introduction
  • Part I. Fundamental issues
  • 2: Martin Haspelmath: Word class universals and language-particular analysis
  • 3: Walter Bisang: Levels of analysis and word classes (root, stem, word)
  • 4: Kasper Boye: Lexical versus functional words
  • 5: Andrej L. Malchukov: Transcategorial operations
  • 6: William A. Foley: Word class systems and other grammatical properties
  • Part II. Theoretical approaches
  • 7: Yoad Winter: Word classes in Formal Semantics
  • 8: Cristiano Broccias: Word classes in Cognitive Grammar
  • 9: Evelien Keizer: Word classes and gradience
  • 10: J. Lachlan Mackenzie: Lexeme classes and word classes in Functional Discourse Grammar
  • 11: William Croft: Word classes in Radical Construction Grammar
  • 12: Hedde Zeijlstra: Word classes in Minimalist Syntax
  • 13: Jan Don: Lexical categories in Distributed Morphology
  • 14: Frank Van Eynde: Word classes in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
  • 15: Mary Dalrymple and Ida Toivonen: . Word classes in Lexical Functional Grammar
  • Part III. Specific word classes
  • 16: Alexander Letuchiy: Verbs
  • 17: Jan Rijkhoff: Nouns
  • 18: David Beck: Adjectives
  • 19: Kees Hengeveld: Adverbs
  • 20: Borja Herce: Adpositions
  • 21: Holger Diessel: Demonstratives
  • 22: Mark Dingemaanse: Ideophones
  • 23: Mark Dingemaanse: Interjections
  • Part IV. Word classes in genetic and areal language groups
  • 24: Elsa Oréal and Martine Vanhove: Word classes in Egyptian, Semitic, and Cushitic (Afroasiatic)
  • 25: Denis Creissels: Word classes in Mande languages
  • 26: Dana Louagie: Word classes in Australian languages
  • 27: Paolo Ramat: Word classes in Indo-European languages
  • 28: Walter Bisang: Word classes in classical Chinese (Sinitic)
  • 29: Donna B. Gerdts and Lauren Schneider: Word classes in Salish languages
  • 30: Karen Michelson: Word classes in Iroquoian languages
  • 31: Marianne Mithun: Word classes in Eskimo-Aleut languages
  • 32: Valentina Vapnarsky: Word classes in Mayan languages
  • 33: Françoise Rose: Word classes in Maweti-Guaraní languages
  • 34: Pieter Muysken: Word classes in Quechuan languages
  • 35: Ulrike Mosel: Word classes in Austronesian languages
  • 36: Marian Klamer: Word classes in Timor-Alor-Pantar and the Papuan region
  • 37: Vadim Kimmelman and Carl Börstell: Word classes in sign languages
  • Part V. Word classes in linguistic sub-disciplines
  • 38: Natalia Levshina: Word classes in corpus linguistics
  • 39: Aaron K. Smith: Word classes and grammaticalization
  • 40: Sabine Stoll: Word classes in first language acquisition
  • 41: Seth Lindstromberg and Frank Boers: Word classes in second language acquisition
  • 42: Yaron Matras and Evangelia Adamou: Word classes in language contact
  • 43: Paul Ibbotson: Word classes in psycholinguistics
  • 44: David Kemmerer: Word classes in neurolinguistics
  • 46: Meladel Mistica, Ekaterina Vylomova, and Francis Bond: Word classes in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence
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