Flexible Word Classes
Typological studies of underspecified parts of speech
Edited by Jan Rijkhoff and Eva van Lier
Author Information
Jan Rijkhoff is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Aarhus University in Denmark. His books include The Noun Phrase (OUP 2002) and, with co-editor Daniel Garcia Velasco, The Noun Phrase in Functional Discourse Grammar (Mouton de Gruyter 2008). He has published on numerous topics - including word classes - in various international journals, including Journal of Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Language and Linguistics Compass, Journal of Semantics, Linguistics, and Studies in Language.
Eva van Lier is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. Her publications include several journal articles on word class typology and the monograph Parts of Speech and Dependent Clauses: a typological study (Utrecht: LOT 2009). Currently she investigates properties of flexible word classes in Oceanic languages with a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
Contributors:
David Beck, University of Alberta
Walter Bisang, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Jan Don, The University of Amsterdam
David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Kees Hengeveld, The University of Amsterdam
Eva van Lier, The University of Amsterdam
William B. McGregor, Aarhus University
Sebastian Nordhoff, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
John Peterson, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel
Felix Rau, Universität zu Köln
Jan Rijkhoff, Aarhus University