Gunter Senft (ed.)

Systems of Nominal Classification

Herausgeber: Senft, Gunter; Levinson, Stephen C.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A major linguistic study of nominal classification systems across a variety of languages, first published in 2000.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9780521770750
• ISBN-10: 0521770750
• Artikelnr.: 24321342

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Gunter Senft; 1. What do we really know about nominal
classification systems? Gunter Senft; 2. A morphosyntactic typology of
classifiers Colette Grinevald; 3. Unusual classifiers in Tariana Alexandra
Y. Aikhenvald; 4. Multiple classifier systems in Akatek (Mayan) Roberto
Zavala Maldonado; 5. Ant, ancestors and medicine: a semantic and pragmatic
account of classifier constructions in Arrernte (Central Australia) David
P. Wilkins; 6. Visualizing ability and nominal classifications: an evidence
of cultural operation in the agreement rules of Japanese numeral
classifiers Kyoko Inoue; 7. Isolation of units and unification of isolates:
the gestalt-functions of classifiers Jürgen Broschart; 8. Bantu noun class
system. Loanword and acquisition evidence of semantic productivity
Katherine Demuth; 9. Gender assignment: a typology and a model Greville G.
Corbett and Norman M. Fraser; 10. Systems of nominal classification - a
concluding discussion John Lucy.