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Phoronyms - Classifiers, Class Nouns, and the Pseudopartitive Construction (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Phoronyms - Classifiers, Class Nouns, and the Pseudopartitive Construction (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Series: Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, 68
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This is the first book devoted to the phoronym, a largely
overlooked grammatical category that includes measures such as «cup
in «a cup of tea, classifiers such as «head in «ten head of cattle,
and other types, all of which occur in the pseudopartitive
construction. Both measures and noun classification (the defining
feature of classifiers) are thought to occur in all languages, so
the phoronym is a linguistic universal. This book is the first to
combine the two major theoretical approaches to the topic and
includes the first detailed studies of group classifiers and
repeaters, as well as the first study of classifiers in Finnish and
Russian. It also covers class nouns and their components - which
are connected grammatically and semantically to both classifiers
and gender - and discusses possible connections of classifiers with
sublinguistic cognition. The analysis focuses on Mandarin Chinese,
English, Japanese, and Thai, but Finnish, Hungarian, Tibetan,
Uzbek, and other languages are also discussed.
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