The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes
Published on 7. December 2023
Book
Hardback
1136 pages
978-0-19-885288-9 (ISBN)
Description
This handbook explores multiple facets of the study of word classes, also known as parts of speech or lexical categories. These categories are of fundamental importance to linguistic theory and description, both formal and functional, and for both language-internal analyses and cross-linguistic comparison.
The volume consists of five parts that investigate word classes from different angles. Chapters in the first part address a range of fundamental issues including diversity and unity in word classes around the world, categorization at different levels of structure, the distinction between lexical and functional words, and hybrid categories. Part II examines the treatment of word classes across a wide range of contemporary linguistic theories, such as Cognitive Grammar, Minimalist Syntax, and Lexical Functional Grammar, while the focus of Part III is on individual word classes, from major categories such as verb and noun to minor ones such as adpositions and ideophones. Part IV provides a number of cross-linguistic case studies, exploring word classes in families including Afroasiatic, Sinitic, Mayan, Austronesian, and in sign languages. Chapters in the final part of the book discuss word classes from the perspective of various sub-disciplines of linguistics, ranging from first and second language acquisition to computational and corpus linguistics. Together, the contributions showcase the importance of word classes for the whole discipline of linguistics, while also highlighting the many ongoing debates in the areas and outlining fruitful avenues for future research.
The volume consists of five parts that investigate word classes from different angles. Chapters in the first part address a range of fundamental issues including diversity and unity in word classes around the world, categorization at different levels of structure, the distinction between lexical and functional words, and hybrid categories. Part II examines the treatment of word classes across a wide range of contemporary linguistic theories, such as Cognitive Grammar, Minimalist Syntax, and Lexical Functional Grammar, while the focus of Part III is on individual word classes, from major categories such as verb and noun to minor ones such as adpositions and ideophones. Part IV provides a number of cross-linguistic case studies, exploring word classes in families including Afroasiatic, Sinitic, Mayan, Austronesian, and in sign languages. Chapters in the final part of the book discuss word classes from the perspective of various sub-disciplines of linguistics, ranging from first and second language acquisition to computational and corpus linguistics. Together, the contributions showcase the importance of word classes for the whole discipline of linguistics, while also highlighting the many ongoing debates in the areas and outlining fruitful avenues for future research.
Reviews / Votes
This book-or rather, some portion of it!-should be required reading for anyone working on language documentation, syntax, morphology or lexicography. In my opinion, this recommendation should hold particularly for those linguists working within theories that assume innate grammatical categories, who might be persuaded to reconsider that decision, or at least consider why there is so much variation in categories across languages. Those working in other subfields of linguistics may find much to think about here as well. * Michael B. Maxwell, Linguistlist *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Dimensions
Height: 253 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 62 mm
Weight
1889 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-885288-9 (9780198852889)
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Eva van Lier
The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes
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11/2023
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Eva van Lier
The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes
E-Book
11/2023
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€158.99
Available for download
Person
Eva van Lier is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. She obtained her PhD from the same institute in 2009 with a typological study of word classes and dependent clause constructions. Later, she authored and (co-)edited several publications on (flexible) word classes, especially in Oceanic languages, including Flexible Word Classes: Typological Studies of Underspecified Parts of Speech (with Jan Rijkhoff; OUP 2013). She has also worked on the typology of ditransitive verbs, action nominalizations, and noun incorporation, and is currently leading a project about alternating verbs across languages.
Content
1: Eva van Lier: Introduction
Part I. Fundamental issues
2: Martin Haspelmath: Word class universals and language-particular analysis
3: Walter Bisang: Levels of analysis and word classes (root, stem, word)
4: Kasper Boye: Lexical versus functional words
5: Andrej L. Malchukov: Transcategorial operations
6: William A. Foley: Word class systems and other grammatical properties
Part II. Theoretical approaches
7: Yoad Winter: Word classes in Formal Semantics
8: Cristiano Broccias: Word classes in Cognitive Grammar
9: Evelien Keizer: Word classes and gradience
10: J. Lachlan Mackenzie: Lexeme classes and word classes in Functional Discourse Grammar
11: William Croft: Word classes in Radical Construction Grammar
12: Hedde Zeijlstra: Word classes in Minimalist Syntax
13: Jan Don: Lexical categories in Distributed Morphology
14: Frank Van Eynde: Word classes in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
15: Mary Dalrymple and Ida Toivonen: . Word classes in Lexical Functional Grammar
Part III. Specific word classes
16: Alexander Letuchiy: Verbs
17: Jan Rijkhoff: Nouns
18: David Beck: Adjectives
19: Kees Hengeveld: Adverbs
20: Borja Herce: Adpositions
21: Holger Diessel: Demonstratives
22: Mark Dingemaanse: Ideophones
23: Mark Dingemaanse: Interjections
Part IV. Word classes in genetic and areal language groups
24: Elsa Oreal and Martine Vanhove: Word classes in Egyptian, Semitic, and Cushitic (Afroasiatic)
25: Denis Creissels: Word classes in Mande languages
26: Dana Louagie: Word classes in Australian languages
27: Paolo Ramat: Word classes in Indo-European languages
28: Walter Bisang: Word classes in classical Chinese (Sinitic)
29: Donna B. Gerdts and Lauren Schneider: Word classes in Salish languages
30: Karen Michelson: Word classes in Iroquoian languages
31: Marianne Mithun: Word classes in Eskimo-Aleut languages
32: Valentina Vapnarsky: Word classes in Mayan languages
33: Francoise Rose: Word classes in Maweti-Guarani languages
34: Pieter Muysken: Word classes in Quechuan languages
35: Ulrike Mosel: Word classes in Austronesian languages
36: Marian Klamer: Word classes in Timor-Alor-Pantar and the Papuan region
37: Vadim Kimmelman and Carl Boerstell: Word classes in sign languages
Part V. Word classes in linguistic sub-disciplines
38: Natalia Levshina: Word classes in corpus linguistics
39: Aaron K. Smith: Word classes and grammaticalization
40: Sabine Stoll: Word classes in first language acquisition
41: Seth Lindstromberg and Frank Boers: Word classes in second language acquisition
42: Yaron Matras and Evangelia Adamou: Word classes in language contact
43: Paul Ibbotson: Word classes in psycholinguistics
44: David Kemmerer: Word classes in neurolinguistics
46: Meladel Mistica, Ekaterina Vylomova, and Francis Bond: Word classes in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence
Part I. Fundamental issues
2: Martin Haspelmath: Word class universals and language-particular analysis
3: Walter Bisang: Levels of analysis and word classes (root, stem, word)
4: Kasper Boye: Lexical versus functional words
5: Andrej L. Malchukov: Transcategorial operations
6: William A. Foley: Word class systems and other grammatical properties
Part II. Theoretical approaches
7: Yoad Winter: Word classes in Formal Semantics
8: Cristiano Broccias: Word classes in Cognitive Grammar
9: Evelien Keizer: Word classes and gradience
10: J. Lachlan Mackenzie: Lexeme classes and word classes in Functional Discourse Grammar
11: William Croft: Word classes in Radical Construction Grammar
12: Hedde Zeijlstra: Word classes in Minimalist Syntax
13: Jan Don: Lexical categories in Distributed Morphology
14: Frank Van Eynde: Word classes in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
15: Mary Dalrymple and Ida Toivonen: . Word classes in Lexical Functional Grammar
Part III. Specific word classes
16: Alexander Letuchiy: Verbs
17: Jan Rijkhoff: Nouns
18: David Beck: Adjectives
19: Kees Hengeveld: Adverbs
20: Borja Herce: Adpositions
21: Holger Diessel: Demonstratives
22: Mark Dingemaanse: Ideophones
23: Mark Dingemaanse: Interjections
Part IV. Word classes in genetic and areal language groups
24: Elsa Oreal and Martine Vanhove: Word classes in Egyptian, Semitic, and Cushitic (Afroasiatic)
25: Denis Creissels: Word classes in Mande languages
26: Dana Louagie: Word classes in Australian languages
27: Paolo Ramat: Word classes in Indo-European languages
28: Walter Bisang: Word classes in classical Chinese (Sinitic)
29: Donna B. Gerdts and Lauren Schneider: Word classes in Salish languages
30: Karen Michelson: Word classes in Iroquoian languages
31: Marianne Mithun: Word classes in Eskimo-Aleut languages
32: Valentina Vapnarsky: Word classes in Mayan languages
33: Francoise Rose: Word classes in Maweti-Guarani languages
34: Pieter Muysken: Word classes in Quechuan languages
35: Ulrike Mosel: Word classes in Austronesian languages
36: Marian Klamer: Word classes in Timor-Alor-Pantar and the Papuan region
37: Vadim Kimmelman and Carl Boerstell: Word classes in sign languages
Part V. Word classes in linguistic sub-disciplines
38: Natalia Levshina: Word classes in corpus linguistics
39: Aaron K. Smith: Word classes and grammaticalization
40: Sabine Stoll: Word classes in first language acquisition
41: Seth Lindstromberg and Frank Boers: Word classes in second language acquisition
42: Yaron Matras and Evangelia Adamou: Word classes in language contact
43: Paul Ibbotson: Word classes in psycholinguistics
44: David Kemmerer: Word classes in neurolinguistics
46: Meladel Mistica, Ekaterina Vylomova, and Francis Bond: Word classes in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence