a morphosyntactic typology of classifiers
Title | a morphosyntactic typology of classifiers PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 43 |
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Systems of Nominal Classification
Title | Systems of Nominal Classification PDF eBook |
Author | Gunter Senft |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2000-08-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521770750 |
A major linguistic study of nominal classification systems across a variety of languages, first published in 2000.
Classifiers
Title | Classifiers PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 562 |
Release | 2000-03-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0191543985 |
Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. Languages of South-East Asia have classifiers used with numerals, while most Indo-European languages have two or three genders. They can have a similar meaning and one can develop from the other. This book provides a comprehensive and original analysis of noun categorization devices all over the world. It will interest typologists, those working in the fields of morphosyntactic variation and lexical semantics, as well as anthropologists and all other scholars interested in the mechanisms of human cognition.
Classifiers
Title | Classifiers PDF eBook |
Author | Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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This text offers a cross-linguistic account of classifiers. Its range of exemplification includes major and minor languages from every continent and several of the examples are from the author's own fieldwork.
Genders and Classifiers
Title | Genders and Classifiers PDF eBook |
Author | Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd |
Publisher | |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0198842015 |
This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages. Following a detailed introduction to noun categorization, the chapters in the volume provide in-depth studies of genders and classifiers of different types in a range of South American and Asian languages and language families.
Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages
Title | Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Emmorey |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2003-04-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1135632960 |
This text is the result of work discussed and presented at the Workshop on Classifier Constructions. It aims to bring to light issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic analyses of these constructions.
The Diachrony of Classification Systems
Title | The Diachrony of Classification Systems PDF eBook |
Author | William B. McGregor |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2018-05-14 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027264139 |
Classification is a popular topic in typological, descriptive and theoretical linguistics. This volume is the first to deal specifically with the diachrony of linguistic systems of classification. It comprises original papers that examine the ways in which linguistic classification systems arise, change, and dissipate in both natural circumstances and in circumstances of attrition. The role of diffusion in such processes is explored, as well as the question of what can be diffused. The volume is not restricted to nominal systems of classification, but also includes papers dealing with the less well-known phenomenon of verbal classification. Languages from a wide spread of world regions are examined, including Africa, Amazonia, Australia, Eurasia, Oceania, and Mesoamerica. The volume will be of interest to linguistic typologists, descriptive linguists, historical linguists, and grammaticalization theorists.