Ad hoc categorization in Russian and multifunctional general extenders
Published in Folia Linguistica
Russian, as well as many other languages, displays a wide number of strategies to name non-lexicalized categories, that is, categories which have a conceptual reality, but are not encoded as single lexical items (e.g. fruit, furniture) or set phrases (e.g. equipment for sport, food for dog). One way to address this lack of lexical means is to provi...
