The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 December 2023
- ISBN 9780198852889
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1136 pages
- Size 250x180x55 mm
- Weight 2 g
- Language English 668
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Short description:
This handbook explores multiple facets of the study of word classes, also known as parts of speech or lexical categories. 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.
MoreLong 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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I. Fundamental issues
Word class universals and language-particular analysis
Levels of analysis and word classes (root, stem, word)
Lexical versus functional words
Transcategorial operations
Word class systems and other grammatical properties
Part II. Theoretical approaches
Word classes in Formal Semantics
Word classes in Cognitive Grammar
Word classes and gradience
Lexeme classes and word classes in Functional Discourse Grammar
Word classes in Radical Construction Grammar
Word classes in Minimalist Syntax
Lexical categories in Distributed Morphology
Word classes in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
. Word classes in Lexical Functional Grammar
Part III. Specific word classes
Verbs
Nouns
Adjectives
Adverbs
Adpositions
Demonstratives
Ideophones
Interjections
Part IV. Word classes in genetic and areal language groups
Word classes in Egyptian, Semitic, and Cushitic (Afroasiatic)
Word classes in Mande languages
Word classes in Australian languages
Word classes in Indo-European languages
Word classes in classical Chinese (Sinitic)
Word classes in Salish languages
Word classes in Iroquoian languages
Word classes in Eskimo-Aleut languages
Word classes in Mayan languages
Word classes in Maweti-Guaraní languages
Word classes in Quechuan languages
Word classes in Austronesian languages
Word classes in Timor-Alor-Pantar and the Papuan region
Word classes in sign languages
Part V. Word classes in linguistic sub-disciplines
Word classes in corpus linguistics
Word classes and grammaticalization
Word classes in first language acquisition
Word classes in second language acquisition
Word classes in language contact
Word classes in psycholinguistics
Word classes in neurolinguistics
Word classes in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence
