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Lexical Polycategoriality Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches Edited by Valentina Vapnarsky Edy Veneziano Lexical Polycategoriality Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS) issn 0165-7763 This series has been established as a companion series to the periodical Studies in Language. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see http://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs Founding Editor Werner Abraham University of Vienna / University of Munich Editors Werner Abraham Elly van Gelderen University of Vienna / University of Munich Arizona State University Editorial Board Bernard Comrie Christian Lehmann University of California, Santa Barbara University of Erfurt William Croft Marianne Mithun University of New Mexico University of California, Santa Barbara Östen Dahl Heiko Narrog University of Stockholm Tohuku University Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Johanna L. Wood University of Cologne University of Aarhus Ekkehard König Debra Ziegeler Free University of Berlin University of Paris III Volume 182 Lexical Polycategoriality Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches Edited by Valentina Vapnarsky and Edy Veneziano Lexical Polycategoriality Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches Edited by Valentina Vapnarsky CNRS & Université Paris Nanterre Edy Veneziano Université Paris Descartes & CNRS John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. doi 10.1075/slcs.182 Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from Library of Congress: lccn 2017003697 (print) / 2017030054 (e-book) isbn 978 90 272 5947 9 (Hb) isbn 978 90 272 6595 1 (e-book) © 2017 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Company · https://benjamins.com In memoriam to Melissa Bowerman Table of contents Acknowledgments ix List of contributors xi Lexical Polycategoriality – Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches. An introduction 1 Valentina Vapnarsky and Edy Veneziano Part I. Polycategoriality: The where and how of flexibility? The flexibility of the noun/verb distinction in the lexicon of Mandinka 35 Denis Creissels Derivationally based homophony in French 59 Françoise Kerleroux Categorial flexibility as an emergent phenomenon: A comparison of Arabic, Wolof, and French 79 Alain Kihm Part II. Polycategoriality across Amerindian languages: From words to roots Polycategoriality and hybridity across Mayan languages: Action nouns and ergative splits 101 Ximena Lois, Valentina Vapnarsky, Cédric Becquey and Aurore Monod Becquelin Polycategoriality and zero derivation: Insights from Central Alaskan Yup’ik Eskimo 155 Marianne Mithun What determines constraints on the relationships between roots and lexical categories? Evidence from Choctaw and Cherokee 175 Marcia Haag viii Table of contents Part III. Polycategoriality across Austronesian and Australian languages: Function and typology Lexical and syntactic categories in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia) and some other Austronesian languages: Fluid vs. rigid categoriality 207 Isabelle Bril Two classes of verbs in Northern Australian languages: Implications for the typology of polycategoriality 243 Eva Schultze-Berndt Part IV. Linguistic analysis in the light of acquisition data The ontology of roots and the emergence of nouns and verbs in Kuikuro: Adult speech and children’s acquisition 275 Bruna Franchetto and Mara Santos Flexibles and polyvalence in Ku Waru: A developmental perspective 307 Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey Word class distinctiveness versus polycategoriality in Modern Hebrew: Typological and psycholinguistic perspectives 343 Ruth A. Berman Part V. Lexical categories and polycategoriality in acquisition Noun and Verb categories in acquisition: Evidence from fillers and inflectional morphology in French-acquiring children 381 Edy Veneziano Semantic discrimination of Noun/Verb categories in French children aged 1;6 to 2;11 413 Christophe Parisse and Caroline Rossi The acquisition of action nouns in Yucatec Maya 443 Barbara Pfeiler Author index 467 Language index 473 Subject index 475 Acknowledgments Most of the research reported here was developed within the international project POLYCAT – Categorial polyvalence: A universal parameter? Gramatical, seman- tic and cognitive approaches (2006–2010), funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France, and coordinated by Valentina Vapnarsky and Ximena Lois. Many chapters of this book are based on papers presented at the International Conference How flexible are lexical categories? held in Paris, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure at the conclusion of the project. We thank all the participants in the project and the conference for their insightful contributions to the issues discussed in this volume. This includes Claire Moyse-Faurie, Harriet Jisa and Elsa Gomez, who offered further insights as discussants at the conference. Special thanks go to Richard Carter for having inspired the project since its very beginnings, for hav- ing animated all along the discussions with stimulating and original questions, and for his generous help in the careful reading of the manuscript. We thank also Dana Cohen for her English reading and copy editing of the chapters, and Cédric Becquey for his editorial help. Finally, we wish to express our posthumous thanks to Melissa Bowerman, who gave a very inspiring talk at the conference. She passed away a few months later, and her contribution chapter could not be ready for in- clusion in the volume. We dedicate the whole volume to her. A special thought goes also to Françoise Kerleroux, who unfortunately followed Melissa just a couple of years later. Both of them remain vividly present in our minds, and so do their long-standing contributions to our comprehension of the mechanisms of human languages. Finally, we wish to thank all the reviewers1 for the time and expertise they devoted to this project. Their contribution was essential to the overall quality of the volume. 1. Gilles Authier, Dominique Bassano, Ellen Basso, Penelope Brown, Richard Carter, Denis Creissels, Jan Don, William Foley, Michel de Fornel, Bernard Fradin, Marcia Haag, Hariet Jisa, Alain Kihm, Michel Launey, Jean Leo Leonard, Yonata Levy, Susana Lopez Ornat, Marc Antoine Mahieu, Francesca Merlan, Mariannne Mithun, Ann Peters, Barbara Pfeiler, Clifton Pye, Francesc Queixalos, Stéphane Robert, Valentina Vapnarsky, Edy Veneziano.
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