Preface |
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1 Theories of grammatical category |
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1.2 Preliminaries to a theory: approaching the part-of-speech problem |
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1.2.1 On syntactic categories and word classes: some clarifications |
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3 | (1) |
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1.2.2 Parts of speech: the naive notional approach |
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4 | (2) |
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1.2.3 Parts of speech: morphological criteria |
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6 | (1) |
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1.2.4 Parts of speech: syntactic criteria |
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7 | (1) |
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1.2.5 An interesting correlation |
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8 | (1) |
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9 | (2) |
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1.2.7 Summarizing: necessary ingredients of a theory of category |
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11 | (1) |
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1.3 Categories in the lexicon |
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12 | (5) |
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1.4 Deconstructing categories |
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17 | (2) |
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1.4.1 Distributed Morphology |
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17 | (1) |
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1.4.2 Radical categorylessness |
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18 | (1) |
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1.5 The notional approach revisited: Langacker (1987) and Anderson (1997) |
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19 | (2) |
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1.6 The present approach: LF-interpretable categorial features make categorizers |
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21 | (3) |
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2 Are word class categories universal? |
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24 | (29) |
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24 | (1) |
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2.2 Do all languages have nouns and verbs? How can we tell? |
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25 | (1) |
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2.3 Two caveats: when we talk about 'verb' and 'noun' |
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26 | (3) |
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2.3.1 Verbs, not their entourage |
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26 | (1) |
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2.3.2 Misled by morphological criteria: nouns and verbs looking alike |
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27 | (1) |
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2.3.3 What criterion, then? |
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28 | (1) |
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2.4 Identical (?) behaviours |
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29 | (3) |
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2.5 The Nootka debate (is probably pointless) |
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32 | (5) |
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2.6 Verbs can be found everywhere, but not necessarily as a word class |
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37 | (3) |
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2.7 An interim summary: verbs, nouns, roots |
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40 | (1) |
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2.8 What about adjectives (and adverbs)? |
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41 | (8) |
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2.8.1 Adjectives are unlike nouns and verbs |
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41 | (1) |
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2.8.2 Adjectives are not unmarked |
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42 | (6) |
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2.8.3 Adverbs are not a simplex category |
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48 | (1) |
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2.9 The trouble with adpositions |
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49 | (2) |
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51 | (2) |
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3 Syntactic decomposition and categorizers |
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53 | (25) |
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53 | (1) |
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3.2 Where are words made? |
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54 | (4) |
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3.3 Fewer idiosyncrasies: argument structure is syntactic structure |
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58 | (2) |
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3.4 There are still idiosyncrasies, however |
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60 | (2) |
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62 | (3) |
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65 | (2) |
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67 | (3) |
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3.8 On the limited productivity (?) of first phases |
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70 | (2) |
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3.9 Are roots truly acategorial? Dutch restrictions |
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72 | (5) |
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77 | (1) |
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78 | (28) |
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78 | (1) |
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4.2 Answering the old questions |
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78 | (4) |
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4.3 Categorial features: a matter of perspective |
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82 | (7) |
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4.4 The Categorization Assumption and roots |
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89 | (9) |
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4.4.1 The Categorization Assumption |
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89 | (4) |
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4.4.2 The interpretation of free roots |
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93 | (2) |
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4.4.3 The role of categorization |
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95 | (2) |
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4.4.4 nPs and vPs as idioms |
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97 | (1) |
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4.5 Categorizers are not functional |
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98 | (2) |
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100 | (6) |
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4.6.1 Keeping [ N] and [ V] separate? |
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101 | (2) |
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4.6.2 Do Farsi verbs always contain nouns? |
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103 | (3) |
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106 | (28) |
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106 | (1) |
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5.2 The category of functional categories |
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106 | (4) |
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5.3 Functional categories as 'satellites' of lexical ones |
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110 | (1) |
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111 | (5) |
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5.5 Too many categorial features |
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116 | (1) |
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5.6 Categorial Deficiency |
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117 | (3) |
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5.7 Categorial Deficiency ≠ c-selection |
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120 | (2) |
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5.8 Categorial Deficiency and roots (and categorizers) |
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122 | (2) |
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5.9 Categorial Deficiency and Agree |
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124 | (9) |
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124 | (2) |
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5.9.2 Biuniqueness as a product of categorial Agree |
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126 | (1) |
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5.9.3 Why there are no mid-projection lexical heads |
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127 | (1) |
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5.9.4 How projection lines begin |
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128 | (2) |
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5.9.5 Deciding the label: no uninterpretable Goals |
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130 | (3) |
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133 | (1) |
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6 Mixed projections and functional categorizers |
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134 | (39) |
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134 | (1) |
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134 | (2) |
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6.3 Two generalizations on mixed projections |
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136 | (4) |
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6.4 Free-mixing mixed projections? |
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140 | (2) |
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6.5 Switches as functional categorizers |
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142 | (6) |
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6.6 Morphologically overt Switches |
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148 | (4) |
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6.7 Switches and their complements |
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152 | (9) |
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6.7.1 Locating the Switch: the size of its complement |
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153 | (6) |
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6.7.2 Phases and Switches |
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159 | (2) |
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6.8 Are all mixed projections externally nominal? |
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161 | (4) |
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162 | (3) |
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6.9 The properties of mixed projections |
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165 | (5) |
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6.9.1 Similarities: Nominalized Aspect Phrases in English and Dutch |
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166 | (1) |
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6.9.2 Differences: two types of Dutch 'plain' nominalized infinitives |
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166 | (3) |
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6.9.3 Fine-grained differences: different features in nominalized Tense Phrases |
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169 | (1) |
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6.10 Why functional categorizers? |
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170 | (2) |
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172 | (1) |
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7 A summary and the bigger picture |
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173 | (6) |
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173 | (2) |
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175 | (1) |
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7.3 Extensions and consequences |
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176 | (3) |
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8 Appendix: notes on Baker (2003) |
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179 | (10) |
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179 | (1) |
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8.2 Are nouns referential? |
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180 | (1) |
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8.3 Syntactic predication, semantic predication and specifiers |
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181 | (2) |
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8.4 Are adjectives the unmarked lexical category? Are they roots? |
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183 | (1) |
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8.5 Pred and other functional categories |
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184 | (1) |
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8.6 Two details: co-ordination and syntactic categorization |
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185 | (4) |
References |
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189 | (15) |
Index |
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