[Lingtyp] Emergence of word-class systems

[Paolo Ramat]

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.
I would recommend  Moro, A. (2016) *The Boundaries of Babel. The Brain and
the Enigma of Impossible Languages*, Second Revised Edition, MIT Press,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
<https://web.archive.org/web/20121007002039/http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11488>

Best,

Prof. Dr. Paolo Ramat
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Socio corrispondente
'Academia Europaea'
'Societas Linguistica Europaea', Honorary Member
Università di Pavia (retired)
Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS Pavia) (retired)

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Il giorno dom 2 apr 2023 alle ore 08:57 Edoardo Nardi <e.nardi at unimarconi.it>
ha scritto:

> Dear John,
>
> 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):
>
> Alfieri, Luca (2016). The typological definition of the (apparently
> historical) notion of root. «Archivio Glottologico Italiano» 102 (1),
> 129-169.
>
> 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.), *Change in
> Grammar. Triggers, Paths, and Outcomes*, 7-26. Alessandria: Edizioni
> dell’Orso.
>
> I hope I was helpful!
>
> Edoardo Nardi
> e.nardi at unimarconi.it
> PhD Student
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> Il giorno 02 apr 2023, alle ore 00:57, John Mansfield <
> jbmansfield at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
> Can anyone point me at literature speculating on how word-class systems
> may have emerged in human language? That is to say, if we assume that there
> are or were (proto-)languages without a clear word-class system, then how
> might one develop?
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