Establishing the status of linguistic categories, looking at categories from different perspectives

What is it about?

This book addresses the foundational question of category distinctions and challenges the traditional views from the modern theoretical and experimental perspective. Its focus is on the noun-verb, noun-adjective distinctions and categories occupying the "grey zone" between standard categories (e.g., nominalizations).

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Why is it important?

Establishing the status of linguistic categories, both lexical and functional, is foundational in all linguistic discussions in such fields as language typology, modern theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics. This volume is an attempt to bring these three fields of study, theoretical linguistics, typology and psycho-/neurolinguistics together with a hope that such an interdisciplinary approach, i. e., looking at categories from different perspectives, will offer new insights into important questions leading to our better understanding of the crucial issue of categorization.