<div dir="ltr">I'm not a follower of the generativist theory, but I think that the neurolinguistic studies which originated in the frame of the innatist approach deserve to be known when speaking of word classes and phrase / morphosyntactic structure's origins.<div>I would recommend
<a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121007002039/http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11488" style="color:rgb(187,102,51);background-image:url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?30a3a");background-position:100% 50%;background-size:0.857em;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;outline-color:rgb(51,102,204);padding-right:1em;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-style:italic">Moro, A. (2016) <i>The Boundaries of Babel. The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages</i>, Second Revised Edition, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.</span></a></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br><div>Prof. Dr. Paolo Ramat<div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div>Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Socio corrispondente<br><div>'Academia Europaea'</div><div>'Societas Linguistica Europaea', Honorary Member</div></div><div><div>Università di Pavia (retired)</div><div>Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS Pavia) (retired)</div></div><div><br></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">piazzetta Arduino 11 - I 27100 Pavia</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">##39 0382 27027</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">347 044 98 44</div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno dom 2 apr 2023 alle ore 08:57 Edoardo Nardi <<a href="mailto:e.nardi@unimarconi.it">e.nardi@unimarconi.it</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Dear John,<div><br></div><div>I myself know very little about the topic you are interested in, but Luca Alfieri (Guglielmo Marconi University, Rome, Italy) has been studying PoS theory in typological terms as well as in Indo-European languages, with particular attention to the development of the adjective class from Proto-Indo-European to the historical languages, especially Latin, Greek and Vedic: it seems that PIE did not have lexical adjectives, and this scenario is still mostly preserved in Vedic, wherein “adjectives” were in fact forms derived from quality-denoting verb roots; by contrast, Latin clearly exhibits the lexical class of adjectives, and Homeric Greek attests a sort of halfway situation between Vedic and Latin, providing concrete evidence for the ongoing typological change. Besides the papers that I attach below, I also indicate the following works (whose pdfs I do no have):</div><div><br></div><div>Alfieri, Luca (2016). The typological definition of the (apparently historical) notion of root. «Archivio Glottologico Italiano» 102 (1), 129-169.</div><div><br></div><div>Alfieri, Luca / Gasbarra, Valentina (2021). The adjective class in Homeric Greek and the parts of speech change in the Indo-European languages. In: Biondi, Laura / Dedè, Francesco / Scala, Andrea (eds.), <i>Change in Grammar. Triggers, Paths, and Outcomes</i>, 7-26. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope I was helpful!</div><div><br><div>
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