What is it about?
In Teop content words can be classified as nouns, verbs and adjectives by distributional criteria as they behave differently wrt to juxtaposed modifiers, but they are multifunctional wrt their function as heads of noun phrases, tense-aspect marked predicates and adjectival phrases which are marked by the same kind of article as the noun phrase they relate to.
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Why is it important?
Teop questions theories of word classes that only consider the functions of content words as the heads of phrases, but not the kind of modifiers they combine with. The study is strictly corpus based, all examples are authentic.
Perspectives
I hope that this article shows two things for theoretical linguistics: the value of documenting endangered languages and of corpus-based research that meets the scientific criterion of falsifiability.
Ulrike Mosel
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This page is a summary of: Teop – an Oceanic language with multifunctional verbs, nouns and adjectives, Studies in Language, September 2017, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/sl.41.2.02mos.
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