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Lexical Categories
For decades, generative linguistics has said little about the differences between
verbs, nouns, and adjectives. This book seeks to fill this theoretical gap by
presenting simple and substantive syntactic definitions of these three lexical
categories. Mark C. Baker claims that the various superficial differences found
in particular languages have a single underlying source which can be used to
give better characterizations of these “parts of speech.” These new definitions
are supported by data from languages from every continent, including English,
Italian, Japanese, Edo, Mohawk, Chichewa, Quechua, Choctaw, Nahuatl,
Mapuche, and several Austronesian and Australian languages. Baker argues
for a formal, syntax-oriented, and universal approach to the parts of speech,
as opposed to the functionalist, semantic, and relativist approaches that have
dominated the few previous works on this subject. This book will be welcomed
by researchers and students of linguistics and by related cognitive scientists of
language.
MARK C. BAKER is Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of
Linguistics at Rutgers University and a member of the Center for Cognitive
Science. He is the author of Incorporation: a theory of grammatical func-
tion changing (1988), The polysynthesis parameter (1996), and The atoms of
language: the mind’s hidden rules of grammar (2001), as well as of numer-
ous articles in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry and Natural Language and
Lingustic Theory.
In this series
CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS
General Editors: P. AUSTIN, J. BRESNAN, B. COMRIE,
W. DRESSLER, C. J. EWEN, R. LASS, D. LIGHTFOOT,
I. ROBERTS, S. ROMAINE, N. V. SMITH
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LJILJANA PROGOVAC: Negative and positive polarity: a binding approach
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R.M.W. DIXON: Ergativity
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YAN HUANG: The syntax and pragmatics of anaphora
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KNUD LAMBRECHT: Information structure and sentence form: topic, focus, and the
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LUIGI BURZIO: Principles of English stress
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JOHN A. HAWKINS: A performance theory of order and constituency
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ALICE C. HARRIS and LYLE CAMPBELL: Historical syntax in cross-linguistic
perspective
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LILIANE HAEGEMAN: The syntax of negation
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PAUL GORRELL: Syntax and parsing
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GUGLIELMO CINQUE: Italian syntax and universal grammar
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HENRY SMITH: Restrictiveness in case theory
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D. ROBERT LADD: Intonational phonology
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ANDREA MORO: The raising of predicates: predicative noun phrases and the theory of
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ROGER LASS: Historical linguistics and language change
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JOHN M. ANDERSON: A notional theory of syntactic categories
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NOMI ERTESCHIK-SHIR: The dynamics of focus structure
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JOHN COLEMAN: Phonological representations: their names, forms and powers
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CHRISTINA Y. BETHIN: Slavic prosody: language change and phonological theory
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BARBARA DANCYGIER: Conditionals and prediction: time, knowledge and causation in
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CLAIRE LEFEBVRE: Creole genesis and the acquisition of grammar: the case of Haitian
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HEINZ GIEGERICH: Lexical strata in English: morphological causes, phonological
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KEREN RICE: Morpheme order and semantic scope: word formation and the Athapaskan
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A.M.S. MCMAHON: Lexical phonology and the history of English
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JOAN BYBEE: Phonology and language use
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LAURIE BAUER: Morphological productivity
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THOMAS ERNST: The syntax of adjuncts
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ELIZABETH CLOSS TRAUGOTT and RICHARD B. DASHER: Regularity in semantic
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MAYA HICKMANN: Children’s discourse: person, space and time across languages
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MARK C. BAKER: Lexical categories: verbs, nouns, and adjectives
LEXICAL CATEGORIES
Verbs, Nouns, and Adjectives
MARK C. BAKER
Rutgers University
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