[Lingtyp] nouns and adjectives

[Greville Corbett]

Hi Adam

I found these particularly useful"

Nikolaeva, Irina & Andrew Spencer. 2013. Possession and modification – a perspective from Canonical Typology. In Dunstan Brown, Marina Chumakina & Greville G. Corbett (eds.), Canonical morphology and syntax, 207-238. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199604326.003.0009<https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199604326.003.0009>.

Nikolaeva, Irina & Andrew Spencer. 2019. Mixed Categories: The Morphosyntax of Noun Modification (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 164). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Best
Grev

On 31 May 2025, at 05:18, Konstantin Henke via Lingtyp <LINGTYP at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:


Hi Adam,

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.

Best,
Konstantin


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On 5/31/25 06:47, Adam James Ross Tallman via Lingtyp wrote:
Hi all,

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).

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.

Any leads/suggestions would be appreciated.

best,

Adam


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Adam J.R. Tallman
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Friedrich Schiller Universität
Department of English Studies
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