Overview

This book deals with the traditional problem of the classification of linguistic units, with a primary focus on word classes. The approach is descriptive rather than theoretical, and is based on the use of distinctive features analogous to the ones used in phonology, which entails a radical reworking of the traditional classification. The first part presents some basic notions such as the use of distinctive features and the role of word classes in grammar; classification by prototypes; and the use of world knowledge as a resource to assign thematic relations to constituents in the sentence. In the second part, some descriptive problems are examined, namely the classification of verbs according to valency; connectives, adverbs, and the internal constituents of the NP; and the classification of units larger than words. This book will be of use as a guide for linguists working on the description of natural languages, as well as aresource for students on courses in linguistic theory and description.

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Author:   Mário Alberto Perini
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9783030781750

ISBN 10:   3030781755
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   24 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction Part I: General Principles Chapter 2: Categorization and knowledge Chapter 3: Form and meaning Chapter 4: Word classes Chapter 5: Classes and the grammar Chapter 6: Prototypes Chapter 7: Assignment by default.- Part II: Descriptive Application Chapter 8: Classification of verbs Chapter 9: Constructions of directional motion: a guided tour of valential complexity Chapter 10: Functions and classes in the NP Chapter 11: Towards a taxonomy of connectives Chapter 12: Adverbs and their relatives Chapter 13: Features and grammatical description Chapter 14: Semantic correlations and syntactic features Chapter 15: Beyond the lexicon Chapter 16: Summary

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Mário A. Perini is Professor Emeritus at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He is the author of Describing Verb Valency (2015) and Thematic Relations (2019).

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