Conlangery 140: Word Classes with William Croft
George and William invite Prof. William Croft to talk about his theoretical approach to word classes and constructions. Forget a language without adjectives, let’s talk about how your property concepts are predicated! Top of Show Greeting: Avricciln Download Links and Resources: Croft, William. in preparation. Morphosyntax: constructions of the world’s languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1 , Chapter 2 Croft, William. 2013. “ Radical Construction Grammar .” The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar , ed. Graeme Trousdale and Thomas Hoffmann, 211-32. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Croft, William. 2007a. “ Beyond Aristotle and gradience: a reply to Aarts. ” Studies in Language 31.409-30. Croft, William. 2007b. “The origins of grammar in the verbalization of experience.” Cognitive Linguistics 18.339-82. Croft, William. 2005. “ Word classes, parts of speech and syntactic argumentation ” [Commentary on Evans and Osada, “Mundari: the myth of a language without word classes”]. Linguistic Typology 9.431-41. Stassen, L. 2003. Intransitive predication . Oxford University Press.