... predication 219
4.5 Adjectives and adverbs 230
4.6 Are adjectives universal? 238
5Lexicalcategoriesandthenatureofthegrammar264
5.1 What has a category? 265
5.2 Categories and the architecture ... functional categories. (1) claims that this property subdivides
the lexical categories too. Those lexical categories that take a specifier are verbs;
those that do not are nouns an...
... of lexical categories, 15n., 36,
296–301
Adelaar, Willem, 181
adjectives, 2n., 107
acquired late, 298
and determiners, 111–19, 121–23
and incorporation, 4, 152, 169n.
and measure phrases, 106 n.
and ... 168,
306–07
nouns in, 51, 113–14, 116–17, 278
pleonastic subject agreement in, 27
plurality in, 108
restructuring in, 29n.
verbs versus adjectives in, 88, 249–50, 264
Mo...
... “adjectival” verbs differ from eventive verbs, for which the
pleonastic agreement is normal, as Baker ( 199 6b: 315– 19) shows in detail:
5.3 Why are the lexical categories universal? 299
significance ... assume that
objects are designated by nouns, actions by verbs, and properties by adjectives.
They then jump tothe conclusion thatthereare a few nouns, verbs, and adjective...
... into dis-
tinct lexical categories at a semi-arbitrary number of places. English happens
to divide the space into three categories: nouns, verbs,
and adjectives, as shown
in (86 a). One might, ... being usable as
either nouns or adjectives. )
2 48 Adjectives as neither nouns nor verbs
(100) M-kango ndi w-a u-kulu.
3-lion
PRED 3-ASSOC 3-big
‘The lion is a big.’
These adje...
... functional categories – Preds that make nouns look more verbal,
and pronouns / determiners that make adjectives and verbs look more nominal.
In languages in which both Pred and pronouns are systematically ... inflection, and
adjectives happen to take the same range of number, gender, and case forms as nouns in Greek,
Latin, and Sanskrit. For this reason, the distinction...
... Salish, Wakashan, and Austronesian, the Mundari language of India is often cited
as having no distinction between nouns, verbs, and adjectives (Bhat 1994: ch. 11; Wetzer 19 96;
Stassen 1997). ... fourth lexical
category that completes the space of logicalpossibilitiesdefinedbytheexistence
of nouns, verbs, and adjectives (Schachter [1985]; see the appendix for evidence
that P i...
... or
adjectival.
20
3.4 Nouns in binding and anaphora
My task now is to go on and show how nouns having a criterion of identity and
a referential index can explain differences between nouns and other categories
that ... the inference in (57 c)
should be valid. (58 ) gives schematic representations for the corresponding sen-
tences in (57 ), and (58 c) does follow from the conju...
... see
D´echaine and Tremblay (1996) and section 4. 5 below.
3 Nouns as bearers of a
referential index
3.1 What is special about nouns?
I turn now to consideration of what sets nouns apart from verbs and adjectives.
Using ... meaningful if and only if the blank is filled by a noun. ( 14) shows that any
type of noun can be used in this frame, including singular count nouns, pl...
... attach to nouns and adjectives in a given
language only if they also attach to verbs. This follows from the fact that verbs
are structurally closer to tense than predicative nouns and adjectives ... –cha,
and –chi appears on verbs, nouns, and adjectives (although less productively
on the latter).
18
Such cases blunt the sharpness of almost all morphological
generalizati...
... as that of the v.
2 Verbs as licensers of subjects
2. 1 Introduction
What is the essential property that makes verbs behave differently from nouns
and adjectives in morphology and syntax? This ... different lexical categories, as shown in (35).
2. 2 Initial motivations 33
noun or adjective. They would say that the examples in (24 ) and (25 )donot
contain prototypical us...
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Complex Instruction Set Computer. Describes the architecture of a processor family. CISC processors generally
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