Noun Classification in Carrier

Abstract

Carrier, an Athabaskan language of the central interior of British Columbia, has an extensive and productive system of noun classification. This system is comprised of absolutive shape classifiers, a body of water absolutive classifier, four sets of classificatory verbs, classificatory forms of third person singular possessors and objects of postpositions, demonstratives, relativizers, numeral classifiers, and a special system for the interrogative `how many'. Although some subsystems make use of the same or related categories, there is a high degree of non-homomorphism among the classifications. The existence of such a system is problematic for some versions of the Linguistic Relativity hypothesis.

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