| Author | : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0198842015 |
This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages. Following a detailed introduction to noun categorization, the chapters in the volume provide in-depth studies of genders and classifiers of different types in a range of South American and Asian languages and language families.
| Author | : Greville G. Corbett |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 1991-04-26 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521338455 |
Surveys gender across a range of languages. For class use and as a reference resource for students and researchers in linguistics.
| Author | : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Electronic books |
| ISBN | : 9780191878060 |
This title offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages. Every language has some means of categorizing objects into humans, or animates, or by their shape, form, size, and function. The most widespread are linguistic genders - grammatical classes of nouns based on core semantic properties such as sex (female and male), animacy, humanness, and also shape and size. Classifiers of several types also serve to categorize entities. Numeral classifiers occur with number words, possessive classifiers appear in the expressions of possession, and verbal classifiers are used on a verb, categorizing its argument. These varied sorts of genders and classifiers can also occur together.
| Author | : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 562 |
| Release | : 2000-03-30 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0191543985 |
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.
| Author | : Eric Mathieu |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0198828101 |
This volume explores the many ways by which natural languages categorize nouns into genders or classes. The findings in the volume have significant implications for syntactic theory and theories of interpretation, and contribute to a greater understanding of the interplay between inflection and derivation.
| Author | : Barbara Unterbeck |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 884 |
| Release | : 2011-07-20 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110802600 |
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
| Author | : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 744 |
| Release | : 2003-08-07 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 110726880X |
This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonian jungle. Its speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as a result most people are fluent in five or six languages. Because of this rampant multilingualism, Tariana combines a number of features inherited from the protolanguage with properties diffused from neighbouring but unrelated Tucanoan languages. Typologically unusual features of the language include: an array of classifiers independent of genders, complex serial verbs, case marking depending on the topicality of a noun, and double marking of case and of number. Tariana has obligatory evidentiality: every sentence contains a special element indicating whether the information was seen, heard, or inferred by the speaker, or whether the speaker acquired it from somebody else. This grammar will be a valuable source-book for linguists and others interested in natural languages.
| Author | : Stan Z. Li |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 1466 |
| Release | : 2009-08-27 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 0387730028 |
With an A–Z format, this encyclopedia provides easy access to relevant information on all aspects of biometrics. It features approximately 250 overview entries and 800 definitional entries. Each entry includes a definition, key words, list of synonyms, list of related entries, illustration(s), applications, and a bibliography. Most entries include useful literature references providing the reader with a portal to more detailed information.
| Author | : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 019872375X |
This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for family life, patterns of socialization, distribution of tasks, and spheres of responsibilities. The way gender is articulated shapes the world of individuals, and of the societies they live in. Gender has three faces: Linguistic Gender-the original sense of 'gender'-is a feature of many languages and reflects the division of nouns into grammatical classes or genders (feminine, masculine, This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for family life, patterns of socialization, distribution of tasks, and spheres of responsibilities. The way gender is articulated shapes the world of individuals, and of the societies they live in. Gender has three faces: Linguistic Gender-the original sense of 'gender'-is a feature of many languages and reflects the division of nouns into grammatical classes or genders (feminine, masculine, neuter, and so on); Natural Gender, or sex, refers to the division of animates into males and females; and Social Gender reflects the social implications and norms of being a man or a woman (or perhaps something else). Women and men may talk and behave differently, depending on conventions within the societies they live in, and their role in language maintenance can also vary. The book focuses on how gender in its many guises is reflected in human languages, how it features in myths and metaphors, and the role it plays in human cognition. Examples are drawn from all over the world, with a special focus on Aikhenvald's extensive fieldwork in Amazonia and New Guinea.
