Between Grammar and Lexicon

by Contini-Morava, Ellen; Tobin, Ishai; Tobin, Y.

• ISBN13: 9781556199608
• ISBN10: 1556199600
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Introduction	ix
Part I Number and Gender Systems Across Languages
Noun Classification Systems
Noun Class as Number in Swahili	3	(28)
Ellen Contini-Morava
Deixis and Noun-Classification in Pilaga and Beyond	31	(28)
Pablo Isaac Kirtchuk
Number Systems
Number in the English Substantive	59	(14)
Walter Hirtle
From Number to Gender, from Dual to Virile: Bridging Cognitive Categories	73	(14)
Laura A. Janda
The Dual Number in Hebrew: Grammar or Lexicon, or Both?	87	(36)
Yishai Tobin
Gender Systems
The Acategorial Lexicon and the Pairing Strategies: A Critical Account of Inherent Gender in Spanish	123	(36)
Ricardo Otheguy
Nancy Stern
Grammatical and Lexical Behavior in the Development of the Spanish Third-Person Clitics	159	(26)
Flora Klein-Andreu
The Grammar of English Gender	185	(20)
Lori Morris
Recasting Animacy: The Codification of Perceptual Distinctions in Language	205	(22)
Edna Andrews
Part II Verb Systems and Parts of Speech Across Languages
Tense and Aspect
Eventuality Classification: Meaning and Use of Spanish Simple Past Tenses	227	(28)
Bob de Jonge
Resultativeness: Constructions with Phrasal Verbs in Focus	255	(36)
Marina Gorlach
Parts of Speech
Complex -er Nominals: Where Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Meet?	291	(42)
Mary Ellen Ryder
Modern Hebrew Adverbials: Between Syntactic Class and Lexical Category	333	(20)
Dorit Ravid
Yitzhak Shlesinger
Name Index	353	(8)
Subject Index	361