Number--Constructions and Semantics : Case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania /

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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...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Storch, Anne, Dimmendaal, Gerrit Jan
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Collection:Studies in language companion series ; v. 151.
Sujets:
Papuan languages > Semantics.
Langues papoues > Sémantique.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Miscellaneous.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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