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Title Nominal classification in aboriginal Australia / edited by Mark Harvey, Nicholas Reid
Published Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 292 pages) : map
Series Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 37
Studies in language companion series ; v. 37. 0165-7763
Contents NOMINAL CLASSIFICATIONS IN ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; Map 1: Principal Languages; Map 2: Other Australian Languages; Map 3: Mayali and Its Dialects; Introduction; Nominal Classification and Gender in Aboriginal Australia; New Guinea 'Classificatory Verbs' and Australian Noun Classification: A Typological Comparison; Head Classes and Agreement Classes in the Mayali Dialect Chain; Head and Agreement Classes: An Areal Perspective; Class and Classifier in Ngan'gityemerri; Nominal Classification in Marrithiyel
Noun Classes, Nominal Classification and Generics in Murrinhpatha. REFERENCES; INDEX OF LANGUAGES; INDEX OF SUBJECTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Summary This volume aims to extend both the range of analyses and the database on nominal classification systems. Previous analyses of nominal classification systems have focussed on two areas: the semantics of the classification system and the role of the system in discourse. In many nominal classification systems, there appear to be a significant percentage of nominals with an arbitrary classification. There is a considerable body of literature aimed at elucidating the semantic bases of clasification in such systems, thereby reducing the degree of apparent arbitrariness. Contributors to this volume
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Languages -- Noun
Aboriginal Australians -- Languages -- Gender
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Oceanic & Australian Languages.
Naamwoorden.
Classifiers (taalkunde)
Australische talen.
Form Electronic book
Author Harvey, Mark, 1958-
Reid, Nicholas
LC no. 97026693
ISBN 9789027281937
9027281939
1283280361
9781283280365
9786613280367
6613280364