Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives,9780521806381

Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives

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ISBN13: 9780521806381
ISBN10: 0521806380
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-04-14
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Mark C. Baker investigates the fundamental nature of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. He claims that the various superficial differences found in particular languages have a single underlying source which can be used to provide better definitions of these "parts of speech". The new definitions are supported by data from languages from every continent. Baker's book 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 subject.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xi
List of abbreviations
xiii
The problem of the lexical categories
1(22)
A theoretical lacuna
1(2)
Unanswerable typological questions concerning categories
3(8)
Categories in other linguistic traditions
11(6)
Goals, methods, and outline of the current work
17(6)
Verbs as licensers of subjects
23(72)
Introduction
23(1)
Initial motivations
24(10)
The distribution of Pred
34(5)
Copular particles
39(7)
Inflection for tense
46(7)
Morphological causatives
53(7)
Word order differences
60(2)
Unaccusativity diagnostics
62(15)
Adjectives in the decomposition of verbs
77(11)
Are there languages without verbs?
88(7)
Nouns as bearers of a referential index
95(95)
What is special about nouns?
95(6)
The criterion of identity
101(8)
Occurrence with quantifiers and determiners
109(16)
Nouns in binding and anaphora
125(7)
Nouns and movement
132(10)
Nouns as arguments
142(11)
Nouns must be related to argument positions
153(6)
Predicate nominals and verbalization
159(10)
Are nouns universal?
169(21)
Adjectives as neither nouns nor verbs
190(74)
The essence of having no essence
190(2)
Attributive modification
192(20)
Adjectives and degree heads
212(7)
Resultative secondary predication
219(11)
Adjectives and adverbs
230(8)
Are adjectives universal?
238(26)
Lexical categories and the nature of the grammar
264(39)
What has a category?
265(10)
Categories and the architecture of the grammar
275(23)
Why are the lexical categories universal?
298(3)
Final remarks
301(2)
Appendix. Adpositions as functional categories
303(23)
A.1 Evidence that adpositions are functional
303(8)
A.2 The place of adpositions in a typology of categories
311(15)
References 326(13)
Index 339

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