Nominal classification : a history of its study from the classical period to the present / Marcin Kilarski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kilarski, Marcin.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Studies in the history of the language sciences ; Series III, v. 121.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences, 0304-0720 ; volume 121

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Classification.

Language and languages.

Typology (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 fun

Contents:

Preliminaries

Nominal classification systems : an overview

From Protagoras to the philosophical grammars

From the "Romantics" to the Neogrammarians

Structuralism

Contemporary studies of gender/noun classes

Contemporary studies of classifiers

Final discussion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027270900

9027270902

OCLC:

865508440