Word Classes

1. Foreword and acknowledgements; 2. Introduction: New approaches to old Word Class issues (by Simone, Raffaele); 3. PART I. Types of word classes; 4. Carving verb classes from corpora (by Lenci, Alessandro); 5. Classes of creation verbs (by Jezek, Elisabetta); 6. On Light Nouns (by Simone, Raffaele); 7. The 'new adjectives' of Tswana (by Creissels, Denis); 8. The Chinese adjective as a word class (by Arcodia, Giorgio F.); 9. Qualifying modifier encoding and adjectival typology (by Alfieri, Luca); 10. PART II. Minor and neglected word classes; 11. Hungarian is a classifier language (by Csirmaz, Aniko); 12. Cardinal numerals: A syntax-semantics interface analysis (by Pannain, Rossella); 13. On the borders of neglected word classes: From preverbs to 'satellites' via adverbs and particles (by Sores, Anna); 14. PART III. Across word classes; 15. Between adjective and noun: Category/function mismatch, constructional overrides and coercion (by Lauwers, Peter); 16. On decategorization and its relevance in German (by Gaeta, Livio); 17. PART IV. Radical views: Do we really need word classes?; 18. Word-class features and reduplicative meaning: The case of Modern Greek (by Kallergi, Haritini); 19. Half and other unique words: Corpus patterns and lexicalist syntax (by Janssen, Maarten); 20. Index of languages; 21. Index of names; 22. Index of subjects