Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices

ISBN-13: 9780199264667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 566 str.

Alexandra Y Aikhenvald

Opis

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.

Recenzje

The most thorough attempt to date on noun categorization devices. It surveys about 500 languages which the author claims is one-tenth of all languages.

O autorze

Alexandra Aikhenvald is Professor of Linguistics and Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. She was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1980-89, and Professor of Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, until 1994