Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Classifiers (eBook, PDF)

A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices

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Produktbeschreibung

Almost all languages have some grammatical means for the linguistic categorization of nouns. Well-known systems such as the lexical numeral classifiers of South-East Asia, on the one hand, and the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classes of Indo-European languages, on the other, are the extremes of a contiuum. They can have a similar semantic basis, and one can develop from the other. Classifiers come in different morphological forms; they can be free nouns, clitics, or affixes. Some languages combine several varieties of classifiers. Different types of classifiers show varying correlations with other grammatical categories. In addition, they differ in their semantics, in the way they develop, and in the way they become obsolescent and disappear. These parameters are the basis for the typology of classifiers presented here. This book is almost certainly the most substantial cross-linguistic account of classifiers ever published. Its range of exemplification includes major and minor languages from every continent (several from the author's own fieldwork). The work combines original research with innovative analysis and will interest typologists, those working in the field of morphosyntactic variation and lexical semantics, and exponents of formal theories who wish to explain the range of linguistic diversity found in natural language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191543982
• Artikelnr.: 64160178

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

* 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