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This project investigates the relationship between lexical categories such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and their meanings. By analyzing property concept sentences across various languages, it aims to uncover constraints on meaning induced by category, enhancing our understanding of language structure.
The distinction between the major lexical categories of noun, verb and adjective figures into myriad linguistic generalizations and has been a center of gravity in the study of language since antiquity.
Notwithstanding their importance, lexical categories are poorly understood (see e.g., Baker & Croft 2017).
Outstanding is whether there are generalizations about the meanings words in the major categories have.
Many have claimed there are, and proposed theories linking meaning and category, in a…
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