<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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    <div>Am 31.05.2025 um 08:43 schrieb Greville
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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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            <div>On 31 May 2025, at 05:18, Konstantin Henke via Lingtyp
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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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                On 5/31/25 06:47, Adam James Ross Tallman via Lingtyp <u></u>
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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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                          Adam</div>
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