This talk first discusses briefly the basic problem of how the perceived world is expressed and represented in language and how language refers to the perceived world. Then it presents and exemplifies the systems of nominal classification that can be found in the languages of the world and finally it discusses some central problems of nominal classification
The present volume is a selection of the papers presented in workshops at ZAS in Berlin in November ...
Some languages have both gender and classifiers, contrary to what was once believed possible. We use...
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1989), pp. 409-42
This handbook chapter summarizes some of the problems of nominal classification in language, present...
This book addresses the fundamental linguistic question of how the perceived world is expressed thro...
This introduction to this issue outlines the main issues concerning nominal classification within a ...
This paper provides an analysis of nominal classification systems, focussing on the grammaticalizati...
The Papuan language Mian allows us to refine the typology of nominal classification. Mian has two ca...
Almost all languages of the world have nominal classification devices in their grammar. The most wid...
In this text we discuss the relations which represent the dialogue between syntax and semantics on o...
Discussion of nominalization (NZN) is possible only within a general theory of grammatical categorie...
There are two ways for a language to classify its nouns: either by means of classifiers, which speci...
International audienceClassifiers and noun class markers are often semantically general and semantic...
Classification of language presupposes its standardization. The conception of artificial standardiza...
Categorization retains its key importance in research on human cognition. It is an intellectual area...
The present volume is a selection of the papers presented in workshops at ZAS in Berlin in November ...
Some languages have both gender and classifiers, contrary to what was once believed possible. We use...
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1989), pp. 409-42
This handbook chapter summarizes some of the problems of nominal classification in language, present...
This book addresses the fundamental linguistic question of how the perceived world is expressed thro...
This introduction to this issue outlines the main issues concerning nominal classification within a ...
This paper provides an analysis of nominal classification systems, focussing on the grammaticalizati...
The Papuan language Mian allows us to refine the typology of nominal classification. Mian has two ca...
Almost all languages of the world have nominal classification devices in their grammar. The most wid...
In this text we discuss the relations which represent the dialogue between syntax and semantics on o...
Discussion of nominalization (NZN) is possible only within a general theory of grammatical categorie...
There are two ways for a language to classify its nouns: either by means of classifiers, which speci...
International audienceClassifiers and noun class markers are often semantically general and semantic...
Classification of language presupposes its standardization. The conception of artificial standardiza...
Categorization retains its key importance in research on human cognition. It is an intellectual area...
The present volume is a selection of the papers presented in workshops at ZAS in Berlin in November ...
Some languages have both gender and classifiers, contrary to what was once believed possible. We use...
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1989), pp. 409-42