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

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 fac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kilarski, Marcin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
Colección:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Studies in the history of the language sciences ; v. 121.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.