Systems of Nominal Classification

Abstract

Preface Gunter Senft 1. What do we really know about nominal classification systems? Gunter Senft 2. A morphosyntactic typology of classifiers Colette Grinevald 3. Unusual classifiers in Tariana Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 4. Multiple classifier systems in Akatek (Mayan) Roberto Zavala Maldonado 5. Ant, ancestors and medicine: a semantic and pragmatic account of classifier constructions in Arrernte (Central Australia) David P. Wilkins 6. Visualizing ability and nominal classifications: an evidence of cultural operation in the agreement rules of Japanese numeral classifiers Kyoko Inoue 7. Isolation of units and unification of isolates: the gestalt-functions of classifiers Jurgen Broschart 8. Bantu noun class system. Loanword and acquisition evidence of semantic productivity Katherine Demuth 9. Gender assignment: a typology and a model Greville G. Corbett and Norman M. Fraser 10. Systems of nominal classification - a concluding discussion John Lucy.

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