Parts of Speech

Should Parts of Speech be treated as descriptive tools or are they to be considered universal constructs? Should they be defined semantically, syntactically, or otherwise? And do non-Indo-European languages reveal novel aspects of categorical assignment? This book attempts to answer these and other...

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Other Authors: Ansaldo, Umberto
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010
Online Access:https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.25
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/85209
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description Should Parts of Speech be treated as descriptive tools or are they to be considered universal constructs? Should they be defined semantically, syntactically, or otherwise? And do non-Indo-European languages reveal novel aspects of categorical assignment? This book attempts to answer these and other fundamental questions for linguistic theory.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-852092021-08-27T03:51:16Z Parts of Speech Ansaldo, Umberto Don, Jan Pfau, Roland Should Parts of Speech be treated as descriptive tools or are they to be considered universal constructs? Should they be defined semantically, syntactically, or otherwise? And do non-Indo-European languages reveal novel aspects of categorical assignment? This book attempts to answer these and other fundamental questions for linguistic theory. 2010 Book http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/85209 English https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.25 John Benjamins Publishing Company restricted
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