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The ‘nouniness’ of attributive adjectives and ‘verbiness’ of predicative adjectives:Evidence from phonology
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Word classes, linguistic historiography and language education:deconstructing the structuralist straw man
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The historical development of the it-cleft: A comparison of two different approaches
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Nouns and verbs in cognitive grammar:where is the 'sound' evidence?
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Abstract:
Formalist approaches traditionally define word classes in distributional terms. By contrast, Cognitive Grammar advocates a semantic basis: nouns profile THINGS; verbs highlight PROCESSES. There is psycholinguistic support for the importance of semantics in lexical categorisation, but also for (language-particular) distributional and phonological properties. This paper focuses on phonology, whose importance is further underlined by data from language change and typology. Following a review of the psycholinguistic and historical linguistic and typological evidence, a gap in the literature is filled, i.e. an experiment involving the production of nonce nouns and verbs is conducted, providing further converging evidence for phonology. I then show how this evidence, although not currently recognised in Cognitive Grammar, can be straightforwardly accommodated as phonological sub-schemas. These sub-schemas are probably more important than the super-schemas proposed in Cognitive Grammar (which may actually be non-existent, and anyway fail to yield clear predictions vis-à-vis empirical data). I conclude that in developing the model further, a higher degree of responsibility to all the available empirical data is called for.
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2013-0009 https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/59794/
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