Acknowledgements Abbreviations Note on phonological transcriptions Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Definitions of lexical classes 2.1 Semantic characterizations 2.2 Morphological diagnostics 2.3 Syntactic distribution 2.4 Extended roles and syntactic markedness 2.4.1 Criteria for markedness 2.4.2 WFM and markedness 2.4.3 Rigid versus flexible languages 2.4.4 Measures of contextual markedness: De- and recategorization 2.4.5 Markedness and prototypical mappings 2.5 The semantics of parts of speech 2.5.1 Prototypicality and peripherality in lexical classification 2.5.2 Semantic NAMEs 2.5.3 Semantic predicates 2.5.4 Property concepts 2.5.5 HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS 2.5.6 Why semantic NAMEs are not linguistic predicates 2.5.7 Non-prototypical semantic predicates and implicit arguments 2.6 Syntactic markedness and semantic prototypes Chapter 3 Semantics, syntax, and the lexicon 3.1 Some basic terminology 3.2 Lexicalization and syntactic structure 3.3 Adjectives, markedness, and iconicity 3.4 Relations between semantic NAMEs: Attribution and possession 3.5 Minor lexical classes Chapter 4 Types of lexical inventory 4.1 Verb-Adjective conflating inventories 4.1.1 Noun, verb, and adjective in Salishan 4.1.1.1 Nominal predicates and nominal actants 4.1.1.2 Verbs as actants 4.1.1.3 Verbs as unmarked modifiers 4.1.1.3 Verbs as unmarked modifiers 4.1.2 Cora 4.1.2.1 Modification and relative clauses in Cora 4.1.2.2 Nouns and modification in Cora 4.1.2.3 Flexibility and rigidity as syntactic parameters 4.2 Noun-Adjective conflating inventories 4.2.1 Quechua 4.2.2 Upper Necaxa Totonac 4.2.2.1 Property concepts in Upper Necaxa 4.2.2.2 Adjectives and nouns as syntactic predicates 4.2.2.3 Adjectives as actants 4.2.2.4 Nouns as modifiers 4.2.2.5 Secondary diagnostics: Quantification and pluralization 4.2.3 Hausa 4.2.4 The N[AV] inventory reconsidered Chapter 5 Conclusions References Index
