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Genders and Classifiers: A Cross-Linguistic Typology [Kõva köide]

Edited by (Visiting Scholar, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Edited by (Distinguished Professor and Director,, Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 334 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 242x160x23 mm, kaal: 636 g
  • Sari: Explorations in Linguistic Typology
  • Ilmumisaeg: 22-Aug-2019
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0198842015
  • ISBN-13: 9780198842019
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 334 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 242x160x23 mm, kaal: 636 g
  • Sari: Explorations in Linguistic Typology
  • Ilmumisaeg: 22-Aug-2019
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0198842015
  • ISBN-13: 9780198842019
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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.

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In summary, this volume is highly recommended as the most current summation of what has been learned by researchers into noun-classification systems in recent years. It is an excellent tool for any scholar seeking to solidify their grasp of the grammatical possibilities of languages and for those aiming to document languages in as full and intercomparable a fashion as possible. * David Douglas Robertson, University of Victoria, Linguist List * T]his volume is highly recommended as the most current summation of what has been learned by researchers into noun-classification systems in recent years. It is an excellent tool for any scholar seeking to solidify their grasp of the grammatical possibilities of languages and for those aiming to document languages in as full and intercomparable a fashion as possible. * LINGUIST List *

Preface viii
Notes on the contributors x
Abbreviations xiv
1 Noun categorization devices: A cross-linguistic perspective
1(29)
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
1 Noun categorization devices in their various guises
1(5)
2 Several noun categorization devices in one language
6(3)
3 How noun categorization devices differ and what they have in common
9(8)
4 Multiple classifier languages
17(1)
5 The utility of noun categorization devices
17(4)
6 The origins and development of noun categorization devices
21(2)
7 About this volume
23(1)
References
24(6)
2 Genders and classifiers in Kampa (Arawak) languages of Peru
30(37)
Elena I. Mihas
1 Introduction
30(2)
2 Relevant aspects of Kampa grammar
32(13)
3 Gender system
45(4)
4 Core Kampa multiple classifier set
49(8)
5 Multiple classifiers as an areal feature
57(1)
6 Conclusions
58(1)
Appendix: Core Kampa multiple classifiers
59(4)
References
63(4)
3 Classifiers in Shiwilu (Kawapanan): Exploring typologically salient properties
67(36)
Pilar M. Valenzuela
1 Introduction
67(5)
2 Overview of the Shiwilu nominal classifying system
72(6)
3 Morphosyntactic contexts and text frequency of Shiwilu classifiers
78(14)
4 Classifier stacking and reduplication
92(3)
5 Classifier incorporation and argument reference
95(4)
6 Conclusions
99(2)
References
101(2)
4 A view from the North: Genders and classifiers in Arawak languages of northwest Amazonia
103(41)
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
1 The problem
103(1)
2 Genders and classifiers in Arawak languages of north-west Amazonia: An illustration
104(2)
3 Arawak languages and their grammatical features
106(3)
4 Genders and classifiers in the Arawak languages of north-west Amazonia
109(8)
5 Where do classifiers come from?
117(3)
6 What are classifiers good for?
120(3)
7 To conclude
123(1)
Appendix 1 The Arawak languages of north-west Amazonia
124(5)
Appendix 2 Data sets - classifier systems in the Arawak languages of north-west Amazonia
129(9)
References
138(6)
5 Possessive classifiers in Zamucoan
144(32)
Luca Ciucci
Pier Marco Bertinetto
1 Introduction
144(1)
2 The Zamucoan family
144(2)
3 The Zamucoan gender system
146(3)
4 NP-internal possessive constructions: General structure
149(3)
5 Ayoreo possessive classifiers
152(6)
6 Chamacoco possessive classifiers
158(2)
7 Old Zamuco possessive classifiers
160(6)
8 Possessive classifiers in Zamucoan and beyond
166(6)
9 Conclusions
172(1)
References
173(3)
6 The elusive verbal classifiers in `Witoto'
176(21)
Katarzyna I. Wojtylak
1 Introduction
176(2)
2 `Witoto' typological profile
178(4)
3 `Witoto' multiple classifier system
182(3)
4 Peculiar verbal formatives in Murui
185(4)
5 Verbal classifiers in Mika
189(4)
6 Summary
193(2)
References
195(2)
7 Multifunctionality of deictic classifiers in the Toba language (Guaycuruan)
197(25)
Cristina Messineo
Paola Cuneo
1 Introduction
197(2)
2 Deictic classifiers in Toba
199(10)
3 Functions of deictic classifiers in discourse
209(7)
4 Conclusions
216(2)
References
218(4)
8 Classifiers in Hmong
222(27)
Nathan M. White
1 Introduction
222(4)
2 Classifiers in Hmong: The literature
226(5)
3 Classifiers in Hmong: Findings from the data
231(15)
4 Conclusion and further research
246(1)
References
247(2)
9 Numeral classifiers in Japanese
249(33)
Nerida Jarkey
Hiroko Komatsu
1 Introduction
249(3)
2 Introduction to numerals and numeral classifiers in Japanese
252(8)
3 Semantics of Japanese numeral classifiers
260(2)
4 Origins of Japanese numeral classifiers
262(2)
5 Functions of Japanese numeral classifiers
264(15)
6 Conclusion
279(1)
References
280(2)
10 Numeral classifiers in Munya, a Tibeto-Burman language
282(17)
Junwei Bai
1 Introduction: The people and the language
282(1)
2 Number words and classifiers in Munya
283(6)
3 The functions of numeral classifiers
289(6)
4 Verbal action classifiers
295(2)
5 Summary
297(1)
References
298(1)
Index of authors 299(4)
Index of languages, language families, and linguistic areas 303(3)
Index of subjects 306
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), Tariana (2003), and Manambu (2008) in addition to essays on various typological and areal topics. She is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality (OUP, 2018) and co-editor, with R. M. W. Dixon, of The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology (CUP, 2017). Her other major publications with OUP include Imperatives and Commands (2010), Languages of the Amazon (2012), The Art of Grammar (2014), How Gender Shapes the World (2016) and Serial Verbs (2018).



Elena I. Mihas has been studying Asheninka and Ashaninka varieties of Kampa Arawak of Peru since 2008, and received her PhD in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Upper Perené Narratives of History, Landscape and Ritual (Nebraska University Press, 2014), A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak) (Mouton, 2015), and Conversational Structures of Alto Perené (Benjamins, 2017), and of multiple papers on the grammatical aspects of Kampa languages. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, A United States Department of Education National Resource Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.