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Tables of Contents for Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Abbreviations
vii
Preface
ix
I. General studies
A dynamic model of part-of-speech differentiation
3
44
Jan Anward
Word classes and sentential functions
47
18
D. N. S. Bhat
Parts of speech as language universals and as language-particular categories
65
38
William Croft
Kinship verbs
103
70
Nicholas Evans
Syntactic categories, cross-linguistic variation and universal grammar
173
44
David Gil
When can a language have adjectives? An implicational universal
217
42
Jan Rijkhoff
Grammaticalisation and part-of-speech systems
259
26
Petra M. Vogel
Lexical prototypes as a universal basis for cross-linguistic identification of ``parts of speech''
285
36
Anna Wierzbicka
II. Language-specific studies
Modal particles in German: Word classification and legacy beyond grammaticalisation
321
30
Werner Abraham
The Tongan category of preverbials
351
20
Jurgen Broschart
Identifying substantival and adjectival pronouns: A case study on German
371
26
Monika Budde
Noun and verb in Iroquoian languages: Multicategorisation from multiple criteria
397
24
Marianne Mithun
Numeratives in Mandarin Chinese
421
58
Robin Sackmann
Polynesian multifunctionality and the ambitions of linguistic description
479
10
Arnfinn Muruvik Vonen
Index of authors
489
6
Index of languages
495
4
Index of subjects
499