Unusual Classifiers In Tariana
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Unusual Classifiers In Tariana
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language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Systems Of Nominal Classification
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Author : Gunter Senft
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-08-03
Systems Of Nominal Classification written by Gunter Senft and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A major linguistic study of nominal classification systems across a variety of languages, first published in 2000.
Number Constructions And Semantics
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Author : Anne Storch
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2014-03-19
Number Constructions And Semantics written by Anne Storch and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is the outcome of several decades of research experience, with contributions by leading scholars based on long-term field research. It combines approaches from descriptive linguistics, anthropological linguistics, socio-historical studies, areal linguistics, and social anthropology. The key concern of this ground-breaking volume is to investigate the linguistic means of expressing number and countable amounts, which differ greatly in the world’s languages. It provides insights into common number-marking devices and their not-so-common usages, but also into phenomena such as the absence of plurals, or transnumeral forms. The different contributions to the volume show that number is of considerable semantic complexity in many languages worldwide, expressing all kinds of extendedness, multiplicity, salience, size, and so on. This raises a number of challenging questions regarding what exactly is described under the slightly monolithic label of ‘number’ in most descriptive approaches to the languages of the world.
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A Morphosyntactic Typology Of Classifiers
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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A Grammar Of Tariana From Northwest Amazonia
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Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-08-07
A Grammar Of Tariana From Northwest Amazonia written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-07 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonian jungle. Its speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as a result most people are fluent in five or six languages. Because of this rampant multilingualism, Tariana combines a number of features inherited from the protolanguage with properties diffused from neighbouring but unrelated Tucanoan languages. Typologically unusual features of the language include: an array of classifiers independent of genders, complex serial verbs, case marking depending on the topicality of a noun, and double marking of case and of number. Tariana has obligatory evidentiality: every sentence contains a special element indicating whether the information was seen, heard, or inferred by the speaker, or whether the speaker acquired it from somebody else. This grammar will be a valuable source-book for linguists and others interested in natural languages.
Systems Of Nominal Classification
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language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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A Grammar Of Tariana From Northwest Amazonia
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Author : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-08-07
A Grammar Of Tariana From Northwest Amazonia written by Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-07 with Foreign Language Study categories.
A comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from the northwest Amazonian jungle.
Genders And Classifiers
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Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
language : en
Publisher: Explorations in Linguistic Typ
Release Date : 2019-08-03
Genders And Classifiers written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and has been published by Explorations in Linguistic Typ this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages. Every language has some means of categorizing objects into humans, or animates, or by their shape, form, size, and function. The most widespread are linguistic genders - grammatical classes of nouns based on core semantic properties such as sex (female and male), animacy, humanness, and also shape and size. Classifiers of several types also serve to categorize entities. Numeral classifiers occur with number words, possessive classifiers appear in the expressions of possession, and verbal classifiers are used on a verb, categorizing its argument. These varied sorts of genders and classifiers can also occur together. This volume elaborates on the expression, usage, history, and meanings of noun categorization devices, exploring their various facets across the languages of South America and Asia, which are known for the diversity of their noun categorization. The volume begins with a typological introduction that outlines the types of noun categorization devices and their expression, scope, functions, and development, as well as sociocultural aspects of their use. The following nine chapters provide in-depth studies of genders and classifiers of different types in a range of South American and Asian languages and language families, including Arawak languages, Zamucoan, Hmong, and Japanese.
Classifiers
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Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2000-03-30
Classifiers written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. Languages of South-East Asia have classifiers used with numerals, while most Indo-European languages have two or three genders. They can have a similar meaning and one can develop from the other. 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.