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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...
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R. M. W. Dixon is Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidi
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"Beginning with the claim that 'a distinct word class "adjectives" can be recognized for every human language,' this book goes on to present cogent argumentation for the universality of the adjective class based on data from a broad range of languages. ... This volume will clearly be useful to anyone interested in adjectives and the nature of linguistic categorization, but Dixon & Aikhenvald's primary contribution is to encourage a...
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0199270937
- ISBN 13 9780199270934
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages392
- EditorDixon R. M. W., Aikhenvald Alexandra Y.
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