Classifiers by Alexandra Y Aikhenvald

Classifiers by Alexandra Y Aikhenvald

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.

a real treasure..highly stimulating. * Thomas Stolz, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung *
Aikhenvald's book is the most comprehensive and dependable guide available - it is unique * Terry Malone, SIL International Book Reviews *
The most thorough attempt to date on noun categorization devices. It surveys about 500 languages which the author claims is one-tenth of all languages. * Language *

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

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ISBN 13	9780199264667
ISBN 10	019926466X
Title	Classifiers
Author	Alexandra Y Aikhenvald
Series	Oxford Studies In Typology And Linguistic Theory
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2003-03-27
Number of pages	564
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