The Dynamics Of Nominal Classification
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The Dynamics of Nominal Classification
Author | : Ruth Singer |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2016-02-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781614513698 |
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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.
Nominal Classification
Author | : Marcin Kilarski |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2013-12-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027270900 |
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This book offers the first comprehensive survey of the study of gender and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics. Based on an analysis of over 200 genetically and typologically diverse languages, the author shows that these seemingly arbitrary and redundant categories play in fact a central role in the lexicon, grammar and the organization of discourse. As a result, the often contradictory approaches to their functionality and semantic motivation encapsulate the evolving conceptions of such issues as cognitive and cultural correlates of linguistic structure, the diverse functions of grammatical categories, linguistic complexity, agreement phenomena and the interplay between lexicon and grammar. The combination of a typological and historiographic perspective adopted here allows the reader to appreciate the detail and insight of earlier, supposedly ‘prescientific’ accounts in light of the data now available and to examine contemporary discussions in the context of prevailing conceptions in the study of language at different points in its history since antiquity.
Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania
Author | : Marc Allassonnière-Tang,Marcin Kilarski |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2023-12-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027249241 |
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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.
Systems of Nominal Classification
Author | : Gunter Senft |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2000-08-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521770750 |
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A major linguistic study of nominal classification systems across a variety of languages, first published in 2000.
what do we really know about nominal classification systems
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages
Author | : Karen Emmorey |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2003-04-02 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781135632960 |
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This text is the result of work discussed and presented at the Workshop on Classifier Constructions. It aims to bring to light issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic analyses of these constructions.
Systems of Norminal Classification a Concluding Discussion
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 17 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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English on Croker Island
Author | : Robert Mailhammer |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2021-02-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110707854 |
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Existing accounts of Australian Aboriginal English do not investigate the significant degree of variation found across the continent. This book presents the first description of English spoken on Croker Island, Northern Territory, Australia, in terms of its history, linguistic features and connections to local Aboriginal languages. It demonstrates that English on Croker Island shows an extremely high degree of intra- and inter-speaker variation and embedding in a longstanding multilingual contact situation, both of which challenge existing models of variation and language contact. These results have significant ramifications for how variation is modelled, for our understanding of how postcolonial Englishes develop, as well as for the dynamics of complex contact situations. The book also puts English on Croker Island into a typological context of World Englishes by establishing a profile according to the parameters of the World Atlas of Varieties of English (WAVE). It is of interest to academics interested in Australian Aboriginal English, language contact, World Englishes and Australian Aboriginal languages.