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Classificatory Particles in Kilivila.
Common among the world's languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammatical division of the noun lexicon into distinct classes that ultimately derives from the human need to classify and filter data on various levels while communicating. In this book, Senft describesan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Common among the world's languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammatical division of the noun lexicon into distinct classes that ultimately derives from the human need to classify and filter data on various levels while communicating. In this book, Senft describesand develops a grammar of classificatory particles in Kilivila, an Austronesian language of the Trobriand Islanders in Papua New Guinea. Drawing largely on his anthropological and linguistic fieldwork in the islands, and emphasizing the use of classifiers in a social context, Senft providesquantitative da. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (396 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-369) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195357837 0195357833 1280527641 9781280527647 1429415509 9781429415507 |