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Classificatory particles in Kilivila /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Senft, Gunter, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Colección:Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.