The universal and typological status of the notion of word class -- closely related to part-of-speech systems, morphology, syntax and the lexicon-syntax interface -- continues to be of major linguistic theoretical interest. The papers included in this volume offer a fresh look at the variety of current theoretical and descriptive approaches to word class issues, and present original analyses and new data from a number of languages. The primary focus is on methods (including computational ones) and criteria for identifying and representing major word classes and subclasses in specific...