TY  - UNPD
A1  - Moshinsky, Julius
T1  - Measuring nominal descriptivity
T2  - Kölner Universalienprojekt: Arbeiten des Kölner Universalien-Projekts ; Nr. 24
N2  - Using Ultan's theory of descriptivity grading as a starting point, I will attempt to capture this differential utility in terms of [...] criteria of literalness, explicitness and syntactic complexity. I will first briefly present his System and investigate some generalizations which he has proposed on the basis of his study of body part terminologies in numerous languages. I will apply his theory to nouns in this and four other semantic domains, in three North American Indian languages. I will test his generalizations and propose some new ones. I will then present an alternative system of descriptivity grading and compare the results of its application with those of Ultan's system. In the final section I will suggest another methodology for quantification. An appendix at the end of the paper lists all of the descriptive lexical items mentioned, graded according to both systems.
T3  - Arbeiten des Kölner Universalien-Projekts : akup - 24 
KW  - Deskriptivität
KW  - Sprachtypologie
KW  - Indianersprachen
Y1  - 1976
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25122
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-251228
PB  - Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Institut für Linguistik, Universität zu Köln
CY  - Köln
ER  -