[Lingtyp] nouns and adjectives

[Claire Bowern]

Hi Adam,
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.
Claire

On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 5:17 AM Christian Lehmann via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:

> High Adam,
>
> I found this particularly useful:
>
> Lehmann, Christian 2018, “Adjective and attribution - Category and
> operation”. Baumann, Carolin & Dabóczi, Viktória & Hartlmaier, Sarah
> (eds.), *Adjektive – Grammatik, Pragmatik, Erwerb.* Berlin etc.: W. de
> Gruyter (Reihe Germanistische Linguistik, 313); 13-76.
> [
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325974309_Adjective_and_attribution_-_Category_and_operation]
>
>
> Best, Christian
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Am 31.05.2025 um 08:43 schrieb Greville Corbett via Lingtyp:
>
> 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> <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
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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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