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The dynamics of nominal classification : productive and lexicalised uses of gender agreement in Mawng /
The use of grammatical gender in the Australian language Mawng calls into question prevailing ideas about the functions of nominal classification systems. Mawng's gender system has a strong semantic basis and plays an important role in the construction of meaning in discourse. Gender agreement...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Pacific Linguistics PL.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of contents ; Acknowledgements ; List of figures ; List of tables ; Abbreviations and glossing conventions ; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 Preamble ; 1.2 Lexicalised agreement verbs: a new typological category ; 1.3 Main themes of the book ; 1.4 An introduction to the Mawng language.
- 1.5 Mawng data used in this book 1.6 Overview of the book ; 2. Theoretical issues ; 2.1 Introduction ; 2.2 Idioms as constructions ; 2.2.1 Idioms, idiomaticity and formulaicity: a note on terminology ; 2.2.2 Idioms from a construction grammar perspective ; 2.3 Nominal Classification.
- 2.4 Selectional restrictions 2.4.1 The birth of selectional restrictions with generative syntax ; 2.4.2 Selectional restrictions as presuppositions ; 3. Grammatical sketch ; 3.1 The verb ; 3.1.1 Pronominal prefixes ; 3.1.2 Complex verbs ; 3.2 Nominals ; 3.2.1 Inflecting nominals.
- 3.2.2 Demonstratives 3.2.3 Pronouns ; 3.2.4 Other parts of speech ; 3.3 Noun phrases ; 3.4 Grammatical relations ; 3.4.1 Primary evidence for argument structure: verbal crossreferencing ; 3.4.2 Secondary evidence for argument structure 1: use of cardinal pronouns.
- 3.4.3 Secondary evidence for argument structure 2: control 3.5 Complex sentences ; 3.6 The discourse status of verbal pronominal prefixes ; 4. Gender ; 4.1 Introduction ; 4.2 The place of Mawng gender within typologies of nominal classification ; 4.3 Mawng gender: a static sketch.