Language Culture and Cognition: Systems of Nominal Classification (Paperback)
Professor of Linguistics Cognitive Anthropology Research Group Gunter Senft; Senft Gunter
Cambridge University Press
9780521065238
0-521-06523-2
This volume addresses the fundamental linguistic question of how the perceived world is expressed through systems of nominal classification. Leading scholars review the whole spectrum of nominal classification,.
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from gender systems through to numeral classifiers, providing cutting-edge theoretical interpretations and empirical case studies across a variety of languages. The volume presents new ideas about the problems of classification and clarifies the interface between anthropological and grammatical work. It will appeal to linguists, anthropologists and psychologists alike as well as specialists in languages as diverse as Australian, Amazonian, and Mayan.
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