Syntax, Semantics, and Typology of Adjectives in Upper Necaxa Totonac

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dc.contributor.authorBeck, David
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T20:56:00Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T20:56:00Z
dc.date.issued2000
dc.descriptionIndividual members of the Totonacan family - a group of at least four languages spoken in East Central Mexico - have been claimed to either lack adjectives or to have only a restricted, closed class of adjectives, words expressing property concepts belonging to the class ofnoun. The basisfor this claim stemsfrom the lack of inflectional distinctions between nouns and words denoting property concepts, äs well äs a certain degree ofoverlap in their distribution, most notably the use of property concepts äs syntactic actants. An investigation of the syntactic behaviour of property-concept words in Upper Necaxa Totonac, however, reveals that while these share a number of important grammatical properties with nouns, they are clearly differentiable from nouns on a number of morphosyntactic grounds related to their semantically predicative nature.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7939/R33B5WK3Z
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.isversionofBeck, D. (2000). The Syntax, Semantics, and Typology of Adjectives in Upper Necaxa Totonac. Linguistic Typology, 4(2), 213-250. doi: 10.1515/lity.2000.4.2.213
dc.rights© Walter de Gruyter
dc.subjectWord classes
dc.subjectMarkedness
dc.subjectProperty concepts
dc.subjectNouns
dc.subjectTotonac
dc.subjectParts of speech
dc.subjectAdjectives
dc.subjectModification
dc.subjectIconicity
dc.subjectPredicates
dc.titleSyntax, Semantics, and Typology of Adjectives in Upper Necaxa Totonac
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
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