Noun Classes And Categorization

Author : Colette Grinevald Craig
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228741

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Noun Classes and Categorization by Colette Grinevald Craig Pdf

This volume is about the nature of categories in cognition and the relevance of these in language description, especially classifier systems. The classical view of categories was that they were discrete and based upon clusters of properties which were inherent to the entities. In recent years this conception has been challenged in different fields. By now prototype theory has established itself as one of the main approaches in linguistics. This volume brings classifier systems to the attention of cognitive psychologists dealing with the phenomenon of human categorization. For the general linguist it shows what can be learned from classifier systems into any theory on the nature of language organization, it will challenge some of the most entrenched notions in the field of linguistics, notions of what language is made of and how it functions.

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191543982

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Classifiers by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Pdf

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 : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015050314676

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Classifiers by Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd Pdf

This text offers a cross-linguistic account of classifiers. Its range of exemplification includes major and minor languages from every continent and several of the examples are from the author's own fieldwork.

Author : Colette G. Craig
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027279170

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Noun Classes and Categorization by Colette G. Craig Pdf

This volume is about the nature of categories in cognition and the relevance of these in language description, especially classifier systems. The classical view of categories was that they were discrete and based upon clusters of properties which were inherent to the entities. In recent years this conception has been challenged in different fields. By now prototype theory has established itself as one of the main approaches in linguistics. This volume brings classifier systems to the attention of cognitive psychologists dealing with the phenomenon of human categorization. For the general linguist it shows what can be learned from classifier systems into any theory on the nature of language organization, it will challenge some of the most entrenched notions in the field of linguistics, notions of what language is made of and how it functions.

Author : Éric Mathieu,Myriam Dali,Gita Zareikar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192563200

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Gender and Noun Classification by Éric Mathieu,Myriam Dali,Gita Zareikar Pdf

This volume explores the many ways by which natural languages categorize nouns into genders or classes. A noun may belong to a given class because of its logical or symbolic similarities with other nouns, because it shares a similar morphological form with other nouns, or simply through an arbitrary convention. The aim of this book is to establish which functional or lexical categories are responsible for this type of classification, especially along the nominal syntactic spine. The book's contributors draw on data from a wide range of languages, including Amharic, French, Gitksan, Haro, Lithuanian, Japanese, Mi'kmaw, Persian, and Shona. Chapters examine where in the nominal structure gender is able to function as a classifying device, and how in the absence of gender, other functional elements in the nominal spine come to fill that gap. Other chapters focus on how gender participates in grammatical concord and agreement phenomena. The volume also discusses semantic agreement: hybrid agreement sometimes arises due to a distinction that grammars encode between natural gender on the one hand and grammatical gender on the other. 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. The volume will be of interest to theoretical linguists and typologists from advanced undergraduate level upwards.

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521770750

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Systems of Nominal Classification by Gunter Senft Pdf

A major linguistic study of nominal classification systems across a variety of languages, first published in 2000.

Author : Greville G. Corbett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052133845X

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Gender by Greville G. Corbett Pdf

Surveys gender across a range of languages. For class use and as a reference resource for students and researchers in linguistics.

Author : Marcin Kilarski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270900

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Nominal Classification by Marcin Kilarski Pdf

This book offers the first comprehensive survey of the study of gender and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics. Based on an analysis of over 200 genetically and typologically diverse languages, the author shows that these seemingly arbitrary and redundant categories play in fact a central role in the lexicon, grammar and the organization of discourse. As a result, the often contradictory approaches to their functionality and semantic motivation encapsulate the evolving conceptions of such issues as cognitive and cultural correlates of linguistic structure, the diverse functions of grammatical categories, linguistic complexity, agreement phenomena and the interplay between lexicon and grammar. The combination of a typological and historiographic perspective adopted here allows the reader to appreciate the detail and insight of earlier, supposedly ‘prescientific’ accounts in light of the data now available and to examine contemporary discussions in the context of prevailing conceptions in the study of language at different points in its history since antiquity.

Author : Serge Sagna
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110632767

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Cross-Categorial Classification by Serge Sagna Pdf

Languages in which non-finite verbs (infinitives, gerunds etc.) are classified using the same linguistic means as nouns are rare. This typologically unusual phenomenon is found in some Atlantic (Niger-Congo) languages, including Jóola languages like Eegimaa, Fogny and Kwatay, where several different noun class/gender prefixes (NCPs) are used to classify both nouns and verbs. In this book, it is argued following Sagna (2008), that these parallel morphosyntactic classifications in the nominal domain and verbal domains also reflect parallel semantic categorisation of entities and events. The main topics investigated in this book are word class flexibility between nouns and verbs, non-finiteness, noun class/gender (where morphological classes are analysed separately from agreement classes) and the semantic principles underlying the categorisation of entities and events. One of the central findings proposed in this book is that instances of NCP alternations on non-finite verbs reflect strategies of event delimitation. This book will be of interest to scholars investigating parts-of-speech systems, finiteness, systems of nominal and verbal classification, and linguistic categorization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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what do we really know about nominal classification systems? by Anonim Pdf

Author : G. E. Booij,Christian Lehmann,Joachim Mugdan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110172782

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Morphologie by G. E. Booij,Christian Lehmann,Joachim Mugdan Pdf

This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction. For "classic" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the more recent branches of communication science the handbooks will give researchers both an verview and orientation. To attain these objectives, the series will aim for a standard comparable to that of the leading handbooks in other disciplines, and to this end will strive for comprehensiveness, theoretical explicitness, reliable documentation of data and findings, and up-to-date methodology. The editors, both of the series and of the individual volumes, and the individual contributors, are committed to this aim. The languages of publication are English, German, and French. The main aim of the series is to provide an appropriate account of the state of the art in the various areas of linguistics and communication science covered by each of the various handbooks; however no inflexible pre-set limits will be imposed on the scope of each volume. The series is open-ended, and can thus take account of further developments in the field. This conception, coupled with the necessity of allowing adequate time for each volume to be prepared with the necessary care, means that there is no set time-table for the publication of the whole series. Each volume will be a self-contained work, complete in itself. The order in which the handbooks are published does not imply any rank ordering, but is determined by the way in which the series is organized; the editor of the whole series enlist a competent editor for each individual volume. Once the principal editor for a volume has been found, he or she then has a completely free hand in the choice of co-editors and contributors. The editors plan each volume independently of the others, being governed only by general formal principles. The series editor only intervene where questions of delineation between individual volumes are concerned. It is felt that this (modus operandi) is best suited to achieving the objectives of the series, namely to give a competent account of the present state of knowledge and of the perception of the problems in the area covered by each volume.

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195357837

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Classificatory Particles in Kilivila by Gunter Senft Pdf

Common among the world's languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammatical division of the noun lexicon into distinct classes that ultimately derives from the human need to classify and filter data on various levels while communicating. In this book, Senft describes and develops a grammar of classificatory particles in Kilivila, an Austronesian language of the Trobriand Islanders in Papua New Guinea. Drawing largely on his anthropological and linguistic fieldwork in the islands, and emphasizing the use of classifiers in a social context, Senft provides quantitative data and a statistical profile of the status and use of these particles, and the classifier system that employs them.

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,Elena I. Mihas
Publisher : Explorations in Linguistic Typ
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198842019

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Genders and Classifiers by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,Elena I. Mihas Pdf

This volume 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. This volume elaborates on the expression, usage, history, and meanings of noun categorization devices, exploring their various facets across the languages of South America and Asia, which are known for the diversity of their noun categorization. The volume begins with a typological introduction that outlines the types of noun categorization devices and their expression, scope, functions, and development, as well as sociocultural aspects of their use. The following nine chapters provide in-depth studies of genders and classifiers of different types in a range of South American and Asian languages and language families, including Arawak languages, Zamucoan, Hmong, and Japanese.

Author : Karen Emmorey
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135632960

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Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages by Karen Emmorey Pdf

This text is the result of work discussed and presented at the Workshop on Classifier Constructions. It aims to bring to light issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic analyses of these constructions.

Author : Mark Harvey,Nicholas Reid
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230409

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Nominal Classification in Aboriginal Australia by Mark Harvey,Nicholas Reid Pdf

This volume aims to extend both the range of analyses and the database on nominal classification systems. Previous analyses of nominal classification systems have focussed on two areas: the semantics of the classification system and the role of the system in discourse. In many nominal classification systems, there appear to be a significant percentage of nominals with an arbitrary classification. There is a considerable body of literature aimed at elucidating the semantic bases of clasification in such systems, thereby reducing the degree of apparent arbitrariness. Contributors to this volume continue this line of enquiry, but also propose that arbitrariness in itself has a role from a wider socio-cultural perspective. Previous analyses of the discourse role of classification systems posit that they play a significant role in referential tracking. For the languages surveyed in this volume, contributors propose that reference instantiation is an equally significant function, and indeed that reference instantiation and tracking cannot be properly divided from one another. This volume provides detailed information on classification in a number of northern Australian languages, whose systems are otherwise poorly known.