Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices

by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Book Overview

Almost all languages have some grammatical means for categorizing nouns. This book provides a comprehensive and original analysis of noun categorization devices all over the world. It will interest typologists, those working in the fields of morphosyntactic variation and lexical semantics, as well as anthropologists and all other scholars interested in the mechanisms of human cognition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019926466X
• ISBN13: 9780199264667
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"