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Title

Systems of nominal classification / edited by Gunter Senft.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors

Senft, Gunter, 1952-

Description

ix, 350 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "This new book addresses the fundamental linguistic question of how the perceived world is expressed through systems of nominal classification that are grammatically encoded in various languages. A team of leading international scholars reviews the whole spectrum of nominal classification, from gender systems through to numeral classifiers, providing cutting-edge theoretical interpretations and empirical case studies based on a wide range of languages. The volume presents new ideas about the problems of classification, advances theory by proposing new typological categories and clarifies the interface between anthropological and grammatical work.
• Focusing on systems that have a conceptual-semantic basis, the contributors reflect and represent the latest approaches in nominal classification research. This invaluable reference work will appeal to linguists, anthropologists and psychologists alike, as well as specialists in languages as diverse as Australian, Amazonian, Mayan and Japanese."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Language, culture, and cognition ; 4

Uniform Title

Language, culture, and cognition ; 4.

Subject

• Categorization (Linguistics)
• Classifiers (Linguistics)
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Nominals

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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

ISBN

0521770750

LCCN

^^^99051374^

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Harvard Library