Noun classes and categorization : proceedings of a symposium on categorization and noun classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983 / edited by Colette Craig.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Craig, Colette Grinevald.

University of Oregon. Linguistics Department.

University of Oregon. Psychology Department.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 7.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classifiers (Linguistics)--Congresses.

Classifiers (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammatical categories--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Nominals--Congresses.

Semantics--Congresses.

Semantics.

Language acquisition--Congresses.

Language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (489 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 lingu

Contents:

NOUN CLASSES AND CATEGORIZATION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; I. ON CATEGORIZATION.; CLASSIFIERS AS A REFLECTION OF MIND; EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF PROTOTYPES1; COMPONENTS AND CATEGORIZATION; PROTOTYPES:BETWEENPLATO AND WITTGENSTEIN; II. TYPOLOGICAL VARIATION OF CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS; NOUN CLASSES AND NOUN CLASSIFICATION IN TYPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE.; NOUN CLASSIFICATION IN YAGUA; GRAPHEMICCLASSIFIERS IN EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS AND MESOPOTAMIAN CUNEIFORM

GENDER AND FOLK TAXONOMY: THE INDEXICAL RELATION BETWEEN GRAMMATICAL AND LEXICAL CATEGORIZATIONTHE CLASSIFIER SYSTEM IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; III. SEMANTIC FEATURES OF CLASSIFIERS; THE SEMANTICS OF NOUN CLASSES IN PROTO-BANTU; NUMERALCLASSIFIERS IN AUSTROASIATIC1; JACALTEC NOUN CLASSIFIERS A STUDY IN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE; IV. SEMANTIC AND PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONS OF CLASSIFIERS; THE SEMANTIC ROLEOF NOUN CLASSIFIERS; SOME DISCOURSE FUNCTIONS OF CLASSIFIERS IN MALAY; THE FIGURE A CLASSIFIER MAKES: DESCRIBING A PARTICULAR BURMESE CLASSIFIER; THE ANAPHORIC USE OF CLASSIFIERS IN JAPANESEi

V. HISTORY AND ACQUISITION OF CLASSIFIER SYSTEMSTHE CONVERGENCE OF NOUN CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; TAKING STOCK:THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHINESE NOUN CLASSIFIERSHISTORICALLY AND IN YOUNG CHILDREN; TOWARD A HISTORY OF TAI CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS; NIGER-CONGO NOUN CLASS AND AGREEMENT SYSTEMS IN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND HISTORICAL CHANGE; LANGUAGE INDEX; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Sponsored by the Linguistics Dept., Psychology Dept., and the Cognitive Science Program, University of Oregon.

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

1-283-31393-6

9786613313935

90-272-7917-9

OCLC:

756484634