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Discourse accounts for diachronic facts: The case of Classical Greek deverbal nominals
2018
In the 1985 paper "The Discourse Basis for Lexical Categories in Universal Grammar, " Hopper and Thompson propose discourse function as the principal factor in the morphosyntactic behaviour of major word-classes, nouns and verbs. The aim of the present paper is to propose that such a continuum of discourse fuctions featuring Discourse-lintity-denoting words (nouns) at the one end, Discourse-Kvent-denoting words (verbs) at the other, and Property-Concept words (adjectives) in the space between,
doi:10.26262/istal.v12i1.6683
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