WORD CLASSES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword and acknowledgments -- Introduction: New approaches to old Word Class issues -- 1. A time-honored issue -- 2. New views -- 3. Approaches to word classes -- 4. What is this volume about? -- 4.1 Part I: Types of word classes -- 4.2 Part II: Minor and neglected word classes -- 4.3 Part III: Across word classes -- 4.4 Part IV: Radical views: do we really need word classes? -- References -- Part I. Types of word classes -- Carving verb classes from corpora -- 1. Classifying verb meanings -- 2. Profiling verb distributions -- 2.1 Syntactic profiles -- 2.2 Semantic profiles -- 3. From distributional profiles to semantic classes -- 3.1 A case study in distribution-based classification of Italian verbs -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Classes of creation verbs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Relevant work -- 2.1 Discussion -- 3. Classes of creation verbs -- 3.1 Create verbs -- 3.2 Verbs of derived creation -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- On Light Nouns -- 1. Word classes and subclasses -- 2. Theoretical tools and premises -- 2.1 Referential Force and degrees of nouniness -- 2.2 Modulating Referential Force -- 3. Nouns with low Referential Force -- 3.1 Taxonomic Nouns -- 3.2 Approximators -- 3.3 Quantifiers -- 3.4 Support Nouns -- 4. Evidence for light nouniness -- 4.1 Semantic headedness -- 4.2 Agreement -- 4.3 Constituency -- 5. A scale of light nouniness -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- The 'new adjectives' of Tswana -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some basic aspects of Tswana morphosyntax -- 2.1 Noun classes -- 2.2 The structure of Tswana NPs -- 2.3 Canonical verbal predication -- 2.4 Other predicative constructions -- 3. The traditional adjectives -- 3.1 The inflection of traditional adjectives -- 3.2 Traditional adjectives in attributive function.

3.3 Traditional adjectives in predicate function -- 4. The new adjectives -- 4.1 Traditional adjectives and new adjectives -- 4.2 The status of new adjectives -- 4.3 New adjectives and adjectival compounds -- 5. New adjectives as an emerging word class -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The Chinese adjective as a word class -- 0. Introduction: Adjectives as a word class -- 1. The adjective as a typological prototype -- 2. The adjective in Chinese linguistics: An overview -- 3. Criteria for the identification of an adjective class in Chinese -- 4. On the status of 'special' adjectives -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Qualifying modifier encoding and adjectival typology -- 1. Theoretical background -- 2. Languages with noun-like adjectives -- 2.1 Noun-like simple stem adjectives -- 2.2 Noun-like phrasal adjectives -- 2.3 Noun-like simple stem phrasal adjectives -- 3. Languages with verb-like adjectives -- 3.1 Simple stem verb-like adjectives -- 3.2 Derived stem verb-like adjectives -- 3.3 Stem-clause verb-like adjectives -- 3.4 Phrasal verb-like adjectives -- 3.5 Derived stem-phrasal verb-like adjectives -- 3.6 Superstem verb-like adjectives -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Part II. Minor and neglected word classes -- Hungarian is a classifier language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Three types of classifiers -- 2.1 Bare nouns denote an undifferentiated mass -- 2.2 Classifiers in Hungarian and elsewhere -- 3. Motivating the word class of sortal classifiers in Hungarian -- 3.1 Similarities in sortal classifier systems -- 3.2 Contrasts between SEA and Hungarian sortal classifier systems -- 4. Distinguishing sortal and group classifiers -- 4.1 Distinguishing classifiers -- 4.2 Explaining the contrast -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Cardinal numerals: a syntax-semantics interface analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Numerals as a 'neglected' word class.

3. Previous studies focusing on similarities with major classes -- 4. Tentative RRG analyses -- 4.1 RP-internal numerals: Numerals as RP operators -- 4.2 RP-internal numerals: Numerals as RP nuclei -- 4.3 RP-external numerals: Numerals as clausal modifiers -- 4.4 RP-external numerals: Numerals as clausal nuclei -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- On the borders of neglected word classes: From preverbs to "satellites" via adverbs and particles -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Some generalities about word classes -- 2. Terminology and glosses relevant to Hungarian data -- 3. Place of adverbs in word class systems -- 3.1 Generalities -- 3.2 Spatial adverbs in Hungarian -- 4. Preverbs in Hungarian (grammars) -- 5. Properties of preverbs in Hungarian in comparison with spatial adverbs -- 5.1 Expression of verbal aspect -- 5.2 Autonomy and number -- 5.3 Morphological properties -- 5.4 Syntactic properties -- 6. Similar items in other languages -- 7. Proposition: the class of "satellites" -- 8. Conclusion and perspectives -- References -- Part III. Across word classes -- Between adjective and noun: Category/function mismatch, constructional overrides and coercion -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Abstract 'nominalized' adjectives (NAs) -- 2.1 Delimitation of the subject and meaning effects -- 2.2 The categorial status of the end product -- 2.3 Basic syntactic template and idiosyncratic extensions through lexicalization -- 3. Problematic accounts -- 3.1 Empty head / head deletion analysis (syntax) -- 3.2 Accounts based on 'full' recategorization -- 4. A syntactic analysis in terms of categorial mismatch -- 4.1 Accounts based on mixed categories and projections -- 4.2 Towards an explanatory construction-based account: Mismatch and coercion -- 5. 'Adjectivized' nouns (ANs) -- 6. Concluding remarks -- On decategorization and its relevance in German -- 1. Introduction.

2. Disentangling a viable notion of decategorization -- 3. A typology of decategorization in German -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Part IV. Radical views: Do we really need word classes? -- Word-class features and reduplicative meaning: The case of Modern Greek -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reduplication and category-specificity: Data from MG and other languages -- 3. Operation of reduplication on lexical and morphosyntactic features of word classes -- 3.1 Countability and distributivity -- 3.2 Plural marking and scatter -- 3.3 Gradability and intensification -- 4. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Half and other unique words: Corpus patterns and lexicalist syntax -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Unique words -- 2.1 Firing verb classes -- 2.2 Half a word class -- 2.3 Semantic restrictions -- 3. Corpus Pattern Analysis -- 3.1 Patterns and surface syntax -- 3.2 Exploitations -- 4. Corpus Pattern Grammar -- 4.1 Exploitations and coercion -- 4.2 Grammatical subcategorization -- 4.3 Half (of) a pattern -- 4.4 Patterns and word classes -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Language index -- Name index -- Subject index.