Systems of Nominal Classification Hardback
Edited by Gunter (Senior Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut fur Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands) Senft
Part of the Language Culture and Cognition series
Hardback
Description
This book, first published in 2000, 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 ideas about the problems of classification, advances theory by proposing 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 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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:362 pages, 21 Tables, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/08/2000
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- ISBN:9780521770750
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:362 pages, 21 Tables, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/08/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521770750
