Classificatory Particles in Kilivila

Zusatztext Senft's account of classificatory particles is by far the most comprehensive available on any comparable system. It addresses essential questions relating to this issue and provides new insights that are relevant to an understanding of noun classification. Klappentext Common among the world's languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammatical division of the noun lexicon into distinct classes that ultimately derives from the human need to classify and filter data on various levels while communicating. In this book, Senft describes and develops a grammar of classificatory particles in Kilivila, an Austronesian language of the Trobriand Islanders in Papua New Guinea. Drawing largely on his anthropological and linguistic fieldwork in the islands, and emphasizing the use of classifiers in a social context, Senft provides quantitative data and a statistical profile of the status and use of these particles, and the classifier system that employs them. Zusammenfassung Senft examines the system of classificatory particles - the divisions of the noun lexicon into distinct classes - in Kilivila, the Austronesian language of the Trobrian Islanders of Papua New Guinea.

Product details

• Authors: Gunter Senft, Gunter (Senior Research Fellow Senft
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.03.1996
• EAN: 9780195092110
• ISBN: 978-0-19-509211-0
• No. of pages: 394
• Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Anthropologi; Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Anthropologi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Papua New Guinea, Oceanic & Polynesian languages, Oceanic and Polynesian languages