Introduction
Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Lexical flexibility: General terminological and theoretical issues
- 2.1Definitions – categorial flexibility and multifunctionality
- 2.2Lexical flexibility and cross-linguistic comparison
- 2.3The semantics of lexical flexibility: Compositionality and other criteria
- 2.4Flexibility of function words
- 2.5Summary
- 3.Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages
- Overview of contributions
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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