The Meaning of Word Classes

Linguists who believe that word classes bear meaning are numerous; the author of this book, however, argues that this belief is untenable. This book proposes a new account of the claim that parts of speech have meaning - a view which has been present in grammars and some philosophical treatises ever since language was studied. The author presents questions of grammatical analysis, critically discussing the relevant views held by typologists and generativists, traditional grammarians and prototype theoreticians.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents : Current trends and word classes - Derivation and word classes - Prototypicality and word classes - The ontological hypothesis and word classes - Meaning and word classes.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

The Author: Lajos Marosán teaches linguistics at Eötvös University, Budapest. His main interests involve theories of grammar, semantics and the philosophy of language.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lajos Marosán
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 03.05.2006
• EAN: 9783631548363
• ISBN: 978-3-631-54836-3
• Seiten: 210
• Abmessung: 148 mm x 12 mm x 210 mm
• Gewicht: 300 g
• Serie: Metalinguistica
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft