Constructions of the World's Languages

The subtitle is Constructions of the World's Languages and it's basically a survey of constructions in the world's languages. And so I've had to, you know, this is for teaching to undergraduates and masters level students and for that matter PhD level students. So when people do use the word adjective, they say a language doesn't have adjectives or adjectives or verbs. What they mean is it's not the strategy that's used by most Western European languages or English anyway for property concept predication. The thing that's important here is defining your terms carefully.