http://t2.stooorage.com/thumbs/852/3220011_lexical-2bcategories.jpg Title: Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns, and Adjectives Author(s): Mark C. Baker Publisher: Cambridge University Press Date: 2004 Pages: 368 Size: 1.23 Mb Format: PDF Quality: High Language: American English Contents: For decades, generative linguistics has said little about the differences between verbs, nouns, and adjectives. This book seeks to fill this theoretical gap by presenting simple and substantive syntactic definitions of these three lexical categories. Mark C. Baker claims that the various superficial differences found in particular languages have a single underlying source which can be used to give better characterizations of these “parts of speech. Acknowledgements page xi List of abbreviations xiii 1 The problem of the lexical categories 1 1.1 A theoretical lacuna 1 1.2 Unanswerable typological questions concerning categories 3 1.3 Categories in other linguistic traditions 11 1.4 Goals, methods, and o...