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(Non-)universality of word-classes and words: The mid-20th century shift

Posted on 8 October 2014 by The Editor — 4 Comments

Martin Haspelmath Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig While looking at a range of views by grammarians on word-class distinctions (noun, verb, adjective etc.) and word division in two recent papers (Haspelmath 2011; 2012a), I was struck by what…

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