Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory) - Brossura

Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 019926466X ISBN 13: 9780199264667

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Alexandra Aikhenvald is Professor of Linguistics and Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. She was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1980-89, and Professor of Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, until 1994

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 019926466X
• ISBN 13: 9780199264667
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 564
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia