<p dir="ltr">Hi Adam,</p>
<p dir="ltr">if you haven't already, I highly recommend tanking a look at the diagnostic criteria in Croft's Radical Construction Grammar. It might not be your approach to grammar, but the chapter about parts of speech has been very valuable to me personally.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Best,<br>
Konstantin</p>
<div class="protonmail_quote"><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>On 5/31/25 06:47, Adam James Ross Tallman via Lingtyp <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:<br><blockquote class="protonmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">Hi all,</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">Just a biblio search. I'm working on a language, having a hard time coming up with criteria that distinguish nouns and adjectives (maybe there are none? yes I've read Dixon).</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">Just interested in literature on similar cases that look at relevant diagnostics in detail. I've looked at the stuff on Mundari (Evans, Osada Hengeveld, etc.), on Riau Indonesian (Gil), and Iroquian (Chafe) (although this one is about verbs) - apologies if I missed anyone just getting into this literature again.</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">Any leads/suggestions would be appreciated.</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">best,</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">Adam</div><br clear="all"></div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Adam J.R. Tallman</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Post-doctoral Researcher <br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Friedrich Schiller Universität<br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif">Department of English Studies<br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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