Adjective Classes: A Cross-linguistic Typology (explorations In Language And Space)

This Book Shows That Every Language Has An Adjective Class And Examines How These Classes Vary In Size And Character. This Work Shows, Among Other Things, That The Grammatical Properties Of The Adjective Class May Be Similar To Nouns Or Verbs Or To Both Or Neither; That Some Languages Have Two Kinds Of Adjectives, One Hard To Distinguish From Nouns And The Other From Verbs; And That The Adjective Class Can Sometimes Be Large And Open And In Other Cases Small And Closed. The Book Will Interest Scholars And Advanced Students Of Language Typology And Of The Syntax And Semantics Of Adjectives.--book Jacket. 1. Adjective Classes In Typological Perspective / R. M. W. Dixon -- 2. Inflected And Uninflected Adjectives In Japanese / Anthony E. Backhouse -- 3. The Two Adjective Classes In Manange / Carol Genetti And Kristine Hildebrandt -- 4. The Adjective Class In Tariana / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- 5. Adjectives In Mam / Nora C. England -- 6. Adjectives In Papantla Totonac / Paulette Levy -- 7. The Small Adjective Class In Jarawara / R. M. W. Dixon -- 8. The Russian Adjective : A Pervasive Yet Elusive Category / Greville G. Corbett -- 9. The Adjective Class In Korean / Ho-min Sohn -- 10. Is There An Adjective Class In Wolof? / Fiona Mclaughlin -- 11. Adjectives In North-east Ambae / Catriona Hyslop -- 12. Adjectives In Semelai / Nicole Kruspe -- 13. Adjectives In Qiang / Randy J. Lapolla And Chenglong Huang -- 14. Adjectives In Lao / N. J. Enfield -- 15. Adjective Classes : What Can We Conclude? / John Hajek. Edited By R.m.w. Dixon And Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.