Categorization and Category Change
Categorization and Category Change
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分类和类别变更
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2013
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Kaori Takamine
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Isabelle Roy;Gianina Iordǎchioaia;Kaori Takamine
PREFACE This book is a collection of selected papers that were presented at the Workshop "Categorization and category change in morphology", which was held at the University of Tromsø in December 2011. The workshop was organized by Antonio Fábregas and Kaori Takamine with the support of the project " Nominalizations: explorations at the syntax-lexicon and the syntax-semantic interfaces (NOMEXPL) " which was funded by the Research Council of Norway together with the German Academic Exchange Service and EGIDE, the French national agency for the promotion of higher education, international student services, and international mobility, via three joint mobility programs: the Aurora program between Norway and France, the German-Norwegian collaborative research support scheme and the PROCOPE program between France and Germany. The book addresses theoretical and empirical issues related to categorization and category change in syntax and morphology. Linguistic descriptions have always made widespread use of lexical categories, i.e., divisions of words into distinct " parts of speech ". Nouns, verbs and adjectives (and sometimes adpositions) are generally considered the three (sometimes four) major lexical classes. Despite this prevalence in linguistics, lexical categories remain a relatively underdeveloped area of formal linguistic theory and many open questions remain to be addressed. Common questions that generally arise concern the proper definition of the classes with their specific properties, the inventory of categories across languages, and the link between categories and formal linguistic theory. The book is structured in two thematic parts. The first part, Categories and categorization, consists of papers that are concerned with means to distinguish among categories in the lexicon and in the syntax, whether they fall within the well-defined categories or pose a challenge to the traditional definition of categorial classes. The second part, Issues in category change, deals with the specific syntactic and morphological derivational processes that are at play when words shift category. It is concerned with the formation of complex words, in particular, how properties of the source category are preserved or modified in the output. The individual contributions in the volume are in the areas of formal syntax, morphology, the syntax-semantics and the syntax-morphology interfaces. The relevant issues are explored within various theoretical and corpus-based frameworks and within a wide range of languages including Preface viii The editors thank the organizers and the audience of the workshop in Tromsø. We also thank the reviewers of the papers and the authors for contributing their works and for …