Phoronyms
Christopher Beckwith
Gebundenes Buch

Phoronyms

Classifiers, Class Nouns, and the Pseudopartitive Construction

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This is the first book devoted to the phoronym, a largely overlooked grammatical category that includes measures such as "cup" in "a cup of tea", classifiers such as "head" in "ten head of cattle", and other types, all of which occur in the pseudopartitive construction. Both measures and noun classification (the defining feature of classifiers) are thought to occur in all languages, so the phoronym is a linguistic universal. This book is the first to combine the two major theoretical approaches to the topic and includes the first detailed studies of group classifiers and repeaters, as well as ...