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.
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.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Noun categorization devices: Setting the scene * Part I. Gender * 2: Gender: Meanings and choices * 3: The expression of gender * 4: Gender in its further guises * Part II. Classifiers * 5: Numeral classifiers * 6: Noun classifiers * 7: Classifiers in possessive constructions * 8: Verbal classifiers * 9: Classifiers of further kinds * 10: Gender and classifiers in one language * 11: Multiple classifier languages: Contexts and properties * Part III. Gender and classifiers: Meanings, function, evolution * 12: The meanings of gender and of classifiers * 13: What are gender and classifiers good for? * 14: The world through the prism of language: Social context and cognitive patterns in gender and classifiers * 15: Origins and histories of gender and classifiers * 16: Contact, obsolescence, and social change in gender and classifiers * 17: How gender and classifiers are acquired, and how they are lost * 18: Gender and classifiers: The heart of the matter * Appendix. A fieldworker's guide: How to know more about genders and classifiers
* 1: Noun categorization devices: Setting the scene * Part I. Gender * 2: Gender: Meanings and choices * 3: The expression of gender * 4: Gender in its further guises * Part II. Classifiers * 5: Numeral classifiers * 6: Noun classifiers * 7: Classifiers in possessive constructions * 8: Verbal classifiers * 9: Classifiers of further kinds * 10: Gender and classifiers in one language * 11: Multiple classifier languages: Contexts and properties * Part III. Gender and classifiers: Meanings, function, evolution * 12: The meanings of gender and of classifiers * 13: What are gender and classifiers good for? * 14: The world through the prism of language: Social context and cognitive patterns in gender and classifiers * 15: Origins and histories of gender and classifiers * 16: Contact, obsolescence, and social change in gender and classifiers * 17: How gender and classifiers are acquired, and how they are lost * 18: Gender and classifiers: The heart of the matter * Appendix. A fieldworker's guide: How to know more about genders and classifiers
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