Table Of ContentCATEGORIAL FEATURES
Proposinganoveltheoryofpartsofspeech,thisbookdiscussescategoriza-
tion from a methodological and theoretical point of view. It draws on
discoveriesandinsightsfromanumberofapproaches–typology,cognitive
grammar, notional approaches and generative grammar – and presents a
generative,feature-basedtheory.
Building on up-to-date research and the latest findings and ideas in
categorization and word-building, Panagiotidis combines the primacy of
categorial features with a syntactic categorization approach, addressing the
fundamental,butoftenoverlooked,questionsingrammaticaltheory.
Designed for graduate students and researchers studying grammar and
syntax, this book is richly illustrated with examples from a variety of lan-
guagesandexplainselementsandphenomenacentraltothenatureofhuman
language.
phoevos panagiotidis is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the
DepartmentofEnglishStudiesattheUniversityofCyprus.
In this series
107. SUSANEDWARDS:FluentAphasia
108. BARBARADANCYGIERandEVESWEETSER:MentalSpacesin
Grammar:ConditionalConstructions
109. HEWBAERMAN,DUNSTANBROWNandGREVILLEG.CORBETT:
TheSyntax–MorphologyInterface:AStudyofSyncretism
110. MARCUSTOMALIN:LinguisticsandtheFormalSciences:TheOriginsof
GenerativeGrammar
111. SAMUELD.EPSTEINandT.DANIELSEELY:Derivationsin
Minimalism
112. PAULDELACY:Markedness:ReductionandPreservationinPhonology
113. YEHUDAN.FALK:SubjectsandTheirProperties
114. P.H.MATTHEWS: SyntacticRelations:ACriticalSurvey
115. MARKC.BAKER: TheSyntaxofAgreementandConcord
116. GILLIANCATRIONARAMCHAND:VerbMeaningandtheLexicon:
AFirstPhaseSyntax
117. PIETERMUYSKEN:FunctionalCategories
118. JUANURIAGEREKA:SyntacticAnchors:OnSemanticStructuring
119. D.ROBERTLADD:IntonationalPhonology,SecondEdition
120. LEONARDH.BABBY:TheSyntaxofArgumentStructure
121. B.ELANDRESHER:TheContrastiveHierarchyinPhonology
122. DAVIDADGER,DANIELHARBOURandLAURELJ.WATKINS:
MirrorsandMicroparameters:PhraseStructurebeyondFreeWordOrder
123. NIINANINGZHANG:CoordinationinSyntax
124. NEILSMITH:AcquiringPhonology
125. NINATOPINTZI: Onsets:SuprasegmentalandProsodicBehaviour
126. CEDRICBOECKX,NORBERTHORNSTEINandJAIRONUNES:Control
asMovement
127. MICHAELISRAEL:TheGrammarofPolarity:Pragmatics,Sensitivity,
andtheLogicofScales
128. M.RITAMANZINIandLEONARDOM.SAVOIA: Grammatical
Categories:VariationinRomanceLanguages
129. BARBARACITKO:SymmetryinSyntax:Merge,MoveandLabels
130. RACHELWALKER:VowelPatternsinLanguage
131. MARYDALRYMPLEandIRINANIKOLAEVA:ObjectsandInformation
Structure
132. JERROLDM.SADOCK:TheModularArchitectureofGrammar
133. DUNSTANBROWNandANDREWHIPPISLEY:NetworkMorphology:
ADefaults-BasedTheoryofWordStructure
134. BETTELOULOS,CORRIENBLOM,GEERTBOOIJ,MARION
ELENBAASandANSVANKEMENADE:MorphosyntacticChange:
AComparativeStudyofParticlesandPrefixes
135. STEPHENCRAIN:TheEmergenceofMeaning
136. HUBERTHAIDER:SymmetryBreakinginSyntax
137. JOSE´ A.CAMACHO:NullSubjects
138. GREGORYSTUMPandRAPHAELA.FINKEL:MorphologicalTypology:
FromWordtoParadigm
139. BRUCETESAR:Output-DrivenPhonology:TheoryandLearning
140. ASIERALCA´ZARANDMARIOSALTARELLI:TheSyntaxofImperatives
141. MISHABECKER:TheAcquisitionofSyntacticStructure:Animacyand
ThematicAlignment
142. MARTINAWILTSCHKO:TheUniversalStructureofCategories:Towards
aFormalTypology
143. FAHADRASHEDAL-MUTAIRI:TheMinimalistProgram:TheNature
andPlausibilityofChomsky’sBiolinguistics
144. CEDRICBOECKX:ElementarySyntacticStructures:Prospectsofa
Feature-FreeSyntax
145. PHOEVOSPANAGIOTIDIS:CategorialFeatures:AGenerativeTheoryof
WordClassCategories
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A Generative Theory of Word Class Categories
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A GENERATIVE THEORY OF WORD
CLASS CATEGORIES
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