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Number--Constructions and Semantics : Case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania /
Numeral systems of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan languages are the topic of this paper. Extended body-part systems that employ the fingers, parts of the arm and head are used by most languages in this family. Body-part based numeral systems of this type are only found in parts of New Guinea and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2014.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 151. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- One size fits all? : on the grammar and semantics of singularity and plurality / Anne Storch & Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
- Number and noun categorisation : a view from north-west Amazonia / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
- Pluractionality and the distribution of number marking across categories / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
- Figuratively speaking
- number in Kharia / John Peterson
- Number in Kambaata : a category between inflection and derivation / Yvonne Treis
- The history of numeral classifiers in Teiwa (Papuan) / Marian Klamer
- Number and numeration in Nêlêmwa and Zuanga (New Caledonia) : ontologies, definiteness and pragmatics / Isabelle Bril
- When number meets classification : the linguistic expression of number in Baïnounk languages / Alexander Cobbinah & Friederike Lüpke
- Number in Dinka / Torben Andersen
- Counting chickens in Luwo / Anne Storch
- Number in South-Bauchi West Languages (Chadic, Nigeria) / Bernard Caron
- Number and numerals in Zande / Helma Pasch
- Numerals in Papuan languages of the Greater Awyu family / Lourens de Vries.