How Categorical are Categories?: New Approaches to the Old Questions of Noun, Verb, and Adjective

✍ Scribed by Joanna Blaszczak (editor); Dorota Klimek-Jankowska (editor); Krzysztof Migdalski (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 323
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]; 122
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book addresses the foundational question of category distinctions and challenges the traditional views from the modern theoretical and experimental perspective. Its focus is on the noun-verb, noun-adjective distinctions and categories occupying the "grey zone" between standard categories (e.g., nominalizations). This book will be of interest for researchers and students of linguistics and cognitive sciences.

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