Classifiers - A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices

Zusatztext The most thorough attempt to date on noun categorization devices. It surveys about 500 languages which the author claims is one-tenth of all languages. Informationen zum Autor Alexandra Aikhenvald is Professor of Linguistics and Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. She was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1980-89, and Professor of Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, until 1994 Klappentext Almost all languages have some grammatical means for categorizing nouns. 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. Zusammenfassung Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. This book provides an analysis of noun categorization devices all over the world. It is for 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Preliminaries Chapter 2: Noun Class and Gender Systems Chapter 3: Noun Classifiers Chapter 4: Numeral Classifiers Chapter 5: Classifiers in Possessive Constructions Chapter 6: Verbal Classifiers Chapter 7: Locative and Deictic Classifiers Chapter 8: Different Classifier Types in One Language Chapter 9: Multiple Classifier Languages Chapter 10: Classifiers and Other Grammatical Categories Chapter 11: Semantics of Noun Categorization Devices Chapter 12: Semantic Organization and Functions of Noun Categorization Chapter 13: Origin and Development of Noun Categorization Devices Chapter 14: Noun Categorization Devices in Language Acquisition and Dissolution Chapter 15: Conclusions Appendix 1: Noun Categorization by Means Other than Classifiers Appendix 2: From Nouns to Classifiers: Further Examples of Semantic Change Appendix 3: Fieldworker's Guide to Classifier Languages ...

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• Authors: Alexandra Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. (La Trobe University) Aikhenvald, A. Iu Aikhenval'd, Aikhenvald Alexandra Y.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2003
• EAN: 9780199264667
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926466-7
• No. of pages: 564
• Series: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory; Oxford Studies in Typology and; Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Historical and comparative linguistics