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Adjective Classes: A Cross-Linguistic Typology

Adjective Classes: A Cross-Linguistic Typology

Hardcover

Series: Explorations in Language and Space, Book 1

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 0199270937
ISBN13: 9780199270934
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 2 2004
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.61
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The studies in this volume suggest that every language has an adjective class, but these vary in character and in size. In its grammatical properties, an adjective class may beas similar to nouns, or to verbs, or to both, or to neither.ze. Whereas in some languages the adjective class is large and can be freely added to, in others it is small and closed. with just a dozen or so members. The book will interest scholars and advanced students of language typology and of the syntax and semantics of adjectives.

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