2003, English, Article, Book chapter, Photograph edition: Classifiers in spoken and in signed languages: how to know more Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.

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  • Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003
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  • English

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Title
  • Classifiers in spoken and in signed languages: how to know more
Author
  • Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.
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  • Emmorey, Karen
Published
  • Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003
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  • Almost all languages have some grammatical means for the linguistic categorization of noun referents. 'Classifiers' is an umbrella label for the continuum of noun categorization devices, from lexical numeral classifiers of South-East Asia to highly grammaticalized gender agreement classes of Indo-European languages. They provide a unique insight into how the world is categorized through language in terms of universal semantic parameters involving humanness, animacy, gender, shape, form, consistency, orientation in space and functional properties of entities. Classifiers are overt morphemes that constitute a grammatical system and serve to arrange nominal referents into semantically defined classes. A language has classifiers if it possesses Classifier Constructions. These are understood as separate grammatical units-such as noun phrases, verb phrases, or clauses-which require classifiers, chosen according to the semantics of a noun. Classifiers in spoken languages come in different guises. Noun classes or genders (as in Spanish) are highly grammaticalized agreement classes based on such core characteristics of noun referents as animacy, sex, humanness and sometimes also shape. In some languages, most nouns are assigned to just one noun class; in other languages different noun classes can be chosen to highlight a particular property of a referent.
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  • English
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  • Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. (2003) Classifiers in spoken and in signed languages: how to know more. In: Perspectives on classifier construction in sign languages. Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, USA, pp. 87-90. ISBN 978-0-8058-4269-2

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