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Tham khảo tài liệu 'lexical categories verbs nouns and adjectives phần 1', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LINGU ISTICS 102 Lexical Categories Verbs Nouns and Adjectives MARK c. BAKER Cambridge more information - 0521806380 This page intentionally left blank Lexical Categories For decades generative linguistics has said little about the differences between verbs nouns and adjectives. This book seeks to fill this theoretical gap by presenting simple and substantive syntactic definitions of these three lexical categories. MarkC. Baker claims that the various superficial differences found in particular languages have a single underlying source which can be used to give better characterizations of these parts of speech. These new definitions are supported by data from languages from every continent including English Italian Japanese Edo Mohawk Chichewa Quechua Choctaw Nahuatl Mapuche and several Austronesian and Australian languages. Baker argues for a formal syntax-oriented and universal approach to the parts of speech as opposed to the functionalist semantic and relativist approaches that have dominated the few previous works on this subject. This book will be welcomed by researchers and students of linguistics and by related cognitive scientists of language. mark c. baker is Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University and a member of the Center for Cognitive Science. He is the author of Incorporation a theory of grammatical function changing 1988 The polysynthesis parameter 1996 and The atoms of language the mind s hidden rules of grammar 2001 as well as of numerous articles in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry and Natural Language and Lingustic .