Classificatory particles in Kilivila / Gunter Senft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Senft, Gunter, 1952- author.

Series:

Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; [1].

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; [1]

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kiriwinian language--Particles.

Kiriwinian language.

Kiriwinian language--Classification.

Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)--Languages--Grammar.

Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 377 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study examines the system of classificatory particles - the divisions of the noun lexicon into distinct classes - in Kilivila, the Austronesian language of the Trobrian Islanders of Papua New Guinea. The author uses data gathered in field research.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Introduction

Ch. 2. Classificatory Particles in Kilivila: Grammatical and Discourse Functions

Ch. 3. The System of Classificatory Particles in Kilivila

Ch. 4. On the Validity of Some of the Presented Results: Six Years Later - A Restudy

Ch. 5. Excursus: Language, Culture, and Cognition?

Ch. 6. Closing Remarks: Using Network Models to Describe Classifier Systems

Appendix A Consultants: 1982/1983 Study

Appendix B Number of CP Tokens Produced for Each CP Type by Text and Word Class for Consultants in Corpus of Kilivila Speech Data

Appendix C Consultants: 1989 Restudy

Appendix D Some Speculations on the Origin of Classifiers.

Notes:

Bibliography: p355-369. _ Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p355-369) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772135-4

1-280-52764-1

0-19-535783-3

1-4294-1550-9

OCLC:

466424434