Certain linguistic analyses argue that Chinese lacks lexical word classes
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Linguistic analyses discuss certain forms of Chinese in terms of precategoriality or flexible word classes, demonstrating the argument that the language lacks traditional fixed lexical word categories.
... some residual morphology with the property of GRIGID at that time. Given the above analysis of Late Archaic Chinese in terms of precategoriality, it is an LFLEXIBLE language whose G parameter is irrelevant except for a potential ...
This book is the first major cross-linguistic study of 'flexible words', i.e. words that cannot be classified in terms of the traditional lexical categories Verb, Noun, Adjective or Adverb. It includes new cross-linguistic studies of word class systems as well as original descriptive and theoretical contributions.