Linguistic categories and linguists categorizations

Bibliographic Data

ID3988965
AuthorsPaolo Ramat (corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume37
Issue1
Publication date1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.1999.002
OpenAlexW2081929505
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited22

The article deals with the notion of category and the linguists operations for delimiting linguistic categories. A threefold organization is suggested that subdivides categories into features and features into values. Every word of a natural language can be categorically described via a matrix of values that represent the implementation of features that, in their turn, are categorial properties. Since there exist many nonclearcut cases, that is, items that may paradigmatically belong to more than one category, it is necessary to use both a functional and a formal approach in order to get a categorial definition of the items. The traditional parts of speech still seem to be the best categorization, in spite of the fact that typology has become acquainted with languages that show very different morphosyntactic structures

Categorization · Grammatical category · Linguistic typology · Linguistics · Natural (archaeology) · Natural language processing · Noun · Part of speech · Sociology · Typology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · linguistics and terminology studies · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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