Lexical Polycategoriality

Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches

Editors

Valentina Vapnarsky | CNRS & Université Paris Nanterre

Edy Veneziano | Université Paris Descartes & CNRS

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This book presents a collection of chapters on the nature, flexibility and acquisition of lexical categories. These long-debated issues are looked at anew by exploring the hypothesis of lexical polycategoriality –according to which lexical forms are not fully, or univocally, specified for lexical category– in a wide number of unrelated languages, and within different theoretical and methodological perspectives. Twenty languages are thoroughly analyzed. Apart from French, Arabic and Hebrew, the volume includes mostly understudied languages, spoken in New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, Amazonia, Meso- and North America. Resulting from a long-standing collaboration between leading international experts, this book brings under one cover new data analyses and results on word categories from the linguistic and acquisitional point of view. It will be of the utmost interest to researchers, teachers and graduate students in different fields of linguistics (morpho-syntax, semantics, typology), language acquisition, as well as psycholinguistics, cognition and anthropology.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 182] 2017. xiii, 479 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.182

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments | pp. ix–9

List of contributors | pp. xi–xiii

Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches: An introduction

Valentina Vapnarsky and Edy Veneziano | pp. 1–31

Part I. Polycategoriality: The where and how of flexibility?

The flexibility of the noun/verb distinction in the lexicon of Mandinka

Denis Creissels | pp. 35–57

Derivationally based homophony in French

Françoise Kerleroux | pp. 59–78

Categorial flexibility as an emergent phenomenon: A comparison of Arabic, Wolof, and French

Alain Kihm | pp. 79–97

Part II. Polycategoriality across Amerindian languages: From words to roots

Polycategoriality and hybridity across Mayan languages: Action nouns and ergative splits

Ximena Lois, Valentina Vapnarsky, Cédric Becquey and Aurore Monod Becquelin | pp. 101–153

Polycategoriality and zero derivation: Insights from Central Alaskan Yup’ik Eskimo

Marianne Mithun | pp. 155–174

What determines constraints on the relationships between roots and lexical categories? Evidence from Choctaw and Cherokee

Marcia Haag | pp. 175–203

Part III. Polycategoriality across Austronesian and Australian languages: Function and typology

Lexical and syntactic categories in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia) and some other Austronesian languages: Fluid vs. rigid categoriality

Isabelle Bril | pp. 207–242

Two classes of verbs in Northern Australian languages: Implications for the typology of polycategoriality

Eva Schultze-Berndt | pp. 243–271

Part IV. Linguistic analysis in the light of acquisition data

The ontology of roots and the emergence of nouns and verbs in Kuikuro: Adult speech and children’s acquisition

Bruna Franchetto and Mara Santos | pp. 275–306

Flexibles and polyvalence in Ku Waru: A developmental perspective

Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey | pp. 307–341

Word class distinctiveness versus polycategoriality in Modern Hebrew: Typological and psycholinguistic perspectives

Ruth A. Berman | pp. 343–377

Part V. Lexical categories and polycategoriality in acquisition

Noun and Verb categories in acquisition: Evidence from fillers and inflectional morphology in French-acquiring children

Edy Veneziano | pp. 381–411

Semantic discrimination of Noun/Verb categories in French children aged 1;6 to 2;11

Christophe Parisse and Caroline Rossi | pp. 413–442

The acquisition of action nouns in Yucatec Maya

Barbara Pfeiler | pp. 443–466

Author index | pp. 467–471

Language index | pp. 473–474

Subject index | pp. 475–479

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Dressler, Wolfgang U., Veronika Mattes & Laila Kjærbæk

2021. Chapter 1. Introduction. In The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 66], ► pp. 2 ff.

van Lier, Eva

2017. Introduction. Studies in Language 41:2 ► pp. 241 ff.

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