This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, starting from
the idea that language can be described as a mechanism for the expression of linguistic …

This book presents rigorous and criterial definitions of the major parts of speech-noun, verb,
and adjective-that account both for their syntactic behaviour and for their observed …

One of the most vital and, at the same time, the most visible characteristics of human speech
is a very high degree of organization of utterances.(Nothing astonishing, if we remember that …

This book is the first major cross-linguistic study of'flexible words', ie words that cannot be
classified in terms of the traditional lexical categories Verb, Noun, Adjective or Adverb …

Dependency in linguistic description    
Dependency in Linguistic Description Edited by Alain Polguère Igor Mel’cuk  …

Abstract Research on Mixtec languages (Otomanguean, Mexico), has long recognized a
bimoraic/bisyllabic “couplet” as an essential structure for the description of the phonology …

Recent work on the typology of parts-of-speech systems has shown that a significant
parameter of variation in the organization of the lexicon concerns the number of open or …

As with so many of the basic terms in linguistics, the term" word" is one which is often taken
for granted and, although it is characterized differently in differ ent domains of linguistic …

The Salishan language Lushootseed has been claimed to lack both syntactic subjects and
morphosyntactically transitive clauses, a problematic stance from a universalist/typological …

Previous analyses have made insightful progress on how Lushootseed functions primarily
based upon elicitation work and morphosyntactic observations. Much of this work is based …