[PDF] The Dynamics Of Nominal Classification eBook

Author : Ruth Singer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1501501208

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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.

Author : Ruth Singer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 30,86 MB
Release : 2016-10
Category : Maung language
ISBN : 9781614513704

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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.

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521770750

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A major linguistic study of nominal classification systems across a variety of languages, first published in 2000.

Author : Ruth Singer (Linguist)
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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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.

Author : Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027249245

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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.

Author : Marcin Kilarski
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Classifiers (Linguistics)
ISBN : 9789027246127

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Offers the first comprehensive survey of the study of gender and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics.

Author : Karen Emmorey
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2003-04-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135632952

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Classifier constructions are universal to sign languages and exhibit unique properties that arise from the nature of the visual-gestural modality. The major goals are to bring to light critical issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present state-of-the-art linguistic and psycholinguistic analyses of these constructions. It is hoped that by doing so, more researchers will be inspired to investigate the nature of classifier constructions across signed languages and further explore the unique aspects of these forms. The papers in this volume discuss the following issues: *how sign language classifiers differ from spoken languages; *cross-linguistic variation in sign language classifier systems; *the role of gesture; *the nature of morpho-syntactic and phonological constraints on classifier constructions; *the grammaticization process for these forms; and *the acquisition of classifier forms. Divided into four parts, groups of papers focus on a particular set of issues, and commentary papers end each section.

Author : Marcin Kilarski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027270902

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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.