Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory)

Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: typology, studies, linguistic, theory, oxford, devices, noun, categorization, classifiers
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2000-06-08
List price: $325.00
ISBN-10: 019823886X
ISBN-13: 9780198238867

Book Description:

Almost all languages have some grammatical means for categorizing nouns. 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.


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