Mixed Categories in the Hierarchical Lexicon
Malouf, Robert P.![Mixed Categories in the Hierarchical Lexicon](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/153/1537424/CHSBZCOP031537424.jpg)
Mixed category constructions like the English verbal gerund involve words that seem to be central members of more than one part of speech and so pose a problem for the standard view of syntactic categories. This book presents a novel analysis of this and similar mixed category constructions in languages including Quechua, Tibetan, Arabic, Fijian, Dagaare, and Jacaltec. Under this analysis, verbal gerunds share the selectional properties of ver...