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Nominal classification in Aboriginal Australia / editors, Mark Harvey, Nicholas Reid.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in language companion series ; 37.
- Studies in language companion series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; v. 37
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aboriginal Australians--Languages--Noun.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Aboriginal Australians--Languages--Gender.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 292 pages) : map
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume aims to extend both the range of analyses and the database on nominal classification systems. Previous analyses of nominal classification systems have focused 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 classification in such systems, thereby reducing the degree of apparent arbitrariness. Contributors to this volume
- Contents:
- NOMINAL CLASSIFICATIONS IN ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; Map 1: Principal Languages; Map 2: Other Australian Languages; Map 3: Mayali and Its Dialects; Introduction; Nominal Classification and Gender in Aboriginal Australia; New Guinea 'Classificatory Verbs' and Australian Noun Classification: A Typological Comparison; Head Classes and Agreement Classes in the Mayali Dialect Chain; Head and Agreement Classes: An Areal Perspective; Class and Classifier in Ngan'gityemerri; Nominal Classification in Marrithiyel
- Noun Classes, Nominal Classification and Generics in Murrinhpatha. REFERENCES; INDEX OF LANGUAGES; INDEX OF SUBJECTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-28036-1
- 9786613280367
- 90-272-8193-9
- OCLC:
- 750183091
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