Alexandra Y Aikhenvald

Gebundenes Buch

A Guide to Gender and Classifiers

Beschreibung

This book explores the range of noun categorization devices found in the languages of the world, from the numeral classifier systems of Southeast Asia to the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classes in Indo-European languages. It shows how these devices provide unique insights into how people categorize the world through the language.

Autor

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and a Language and Culture Research Cluster Lead at the Jawun Research Centre at Central Queensland University in Cairns. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (CUP, 2003) and The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (OUP, 2008; paperback 2010), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American and Papuan languages and typological issues including evidentials, classifiers, and serial verbs. Her other recent publications with OUP include The Art of Grammar (2015), How Gender Shapes the World (2016; paperback 2019), and Serial Verbs (2018; paperback 2021), in addition to over a dozen edited volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality (OUP 2017; paperback 2024).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9780198863601
• ISBN-10: 0198863608
• Artikelnr.: 73518323