The Dynamics of Nominal Classification
Title | The Dynamics of Nominal Classification PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Singer |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2016-02-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1501501208 |
The use of grammatical gender in the Australian language Mawng calls into question prevailing ideas about the functions of nominal classification systems. Mawng’s gender system has a strong semantic basis and plays an important role in the construction of meaning in discourse. Gender agreement in verbs is frequently lexicalized, creating idioms called lexicalised agreement verbs that are structurally similar to noun-verb idioms. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in nominal classification or cross-linguistic approaches to idioms.
The Dynamics of Nominal Classification
Title | The Dynamics of Nominal Classification PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Singer |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2016-10 |
Genre | Maung language |
ISBN | 9781614513704 |
The use of grammatical gender in the Australian language Mawng calls into question prevailing ideas about the functions of nominal classification systems. Mawng's gender system has a strong semantic basis and plays an important role in the construction of meaning in discourse. Gender agreement in verbs is frequently lexicalized, creating idioms called lexicalised agreement verbs that are structurally similar to noun-verb idioms.
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.
The Dynamics of Nominal Classification
Title | The Dynamics of Nominal Classification PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Singer (Linguist) |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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The use of grammatical gender in the Australian language Mawng calls into question prevailing ideas about the functions of nominal classification systems. Mawng's gender system has a strong semantic basis and plays an important role in the construction of meaning in discourse. Gender agreement in verbs is frequently lexicalized, creating idioms called lexicalised agreement verbs that are structurally similar to noun-verb idioms. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in nominal classification or cross-linguistic approaches to idioms.
what do we really know about nominal classification systems?
Title | what do we really know about nominal classification systems? PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 39 |
Release | |
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ISBN |
Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania
Title | Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Allassonnière-Tang |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2023-12-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027249245 |
Linguists have long been interested in systems of nominal classification due to their diverse functions as well as cognitive and cultural correlates. Among others, ongoing research has focused on semantic, functional and morphosyntactic properties of complex systems such as co-occurring gender and numeral classifiers. Such approaches have typically focused on the languages of north-western South America and Papua New Guinea. This volume proposes to fill in a gap in existing research by focusing on Asia, based on case studies from languages belonging to a wide range of families, i.e., Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Dravidian, Hmong-Mien, Indo-European, Mongolic, Sino-Tibetan and Tai-Kadai as well as the language isolate Nivkh. Gender and classifiers in these languages are approached within several different perspectives, i.e., functional, typological and diachronic, thus revealing complex patterns in their lexical and pragmatic functions as well as origin, development and loss. Describing and analysing such properties is a unique and innovative contribution of the volume.
Nominal Classification
Title | Nominal Classification PDF eBook |
Author | Marcin Kilarski |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Classifiers (Linguistics) |
ISBN | 9789027246127 |
Offers the first comprehensive survey of the study of gender and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics.