<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Adam,</div><div>Barry Alpher's Yir Yoront dictionary has a grammar sketch that has a great set of adjective tests; I used them (along with a few others) in the Bardi grammar. Juhyae Kim's chapter on adjectives in the Oxford Guide to Australian Languages also has a summary.</div><div>Claire</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 5:17 AM Christian Lehmann via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p>High Adam,</p>
<p>I found this particularly useful:</p>
<p>Lehmann, Christian 2018, “Adjective and attribution - Category
and operation”. Baumann, Carolin & Dabóczi, Viktória &
Hartlmaier, Sarah (eds.), <i>Adjektive – Grammatik, Pragmatik,
Erwerb.</i> Berlin etc.: W. de Gruyter (Reihe Germanistische
Linguistik, 313); 13-76.</p>
[<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325974309_Adjective_and_attribution_-_Category_and_operation" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325974309_Adjective_and_attribution_-_Category_and_operation</a>]
<p>Best, Christian</p>
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Corbett via Lingtyp:<br>
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Hi Adam
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<div>I found these particularly useful"</div>
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<p>Nikolaeva, Irina & Andrew Spencer. 2013. Possession and
modification – a perspective from Canonical Typology. In
Dunstan Brown, Marina Chumakina & Greville G. Corbett
(eds.), <em>Canonical morphology and syntax</em>, 207-238.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199604326.003.0009" target="_blank">doi:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199604326.003.0009</a>.</p>
<p>Nikolaeva, Irina & Andrew Spencer. 2019. <em>Mixed
Categories: The Morphosyntax of Noun Modification</em> (Cambridge
Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 164). Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.</p>
<div>Best</div>
<div>Grev</div>
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<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>
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Hi all,</div>
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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>
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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>
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Any leads/suggestions would be appreciated.</div>
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best,</div>
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