<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hello dear friends interested in Nominal Classification, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">
Welcome to the mailing list on Nominal Classification. (If you are not in the list and would like to be, visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/forum/systems-of-nominal-classification">https://groups.google.com/d/forum/systems-of-nominal-classification</a>.)</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">We started it many months ago after a workshop at Univeristy of Surrey, but haven't made use of it - until now. I thought we might start with some light introductions for those interested. There are lots of people thinking about similar things and we should try and connect - science advances by collaboration and shared insights.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Briefly about me:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">My name is Hedvig and I'm a student assistant at the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. I work in a typological project called the "Nijmegen Typological Survey" and I work primarily with West African languages. I have my education from Stockholm University, classical grammatical typology and contact linguistics. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">My interest in nominal classification:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I read a lot of grammars of African languages and what interest me the most is the so called productivity of certain noun classes, aka what some call "derivational noun classe". This concerns primarily the augmentative, diminutive and locative noun classes. What is interesting to me is how these systems contrast to noun class-systems that do not have these productive classes and smaller systems (gender systems), how are we to treat these in the comparative literature? I'll write a separate post about it.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Practicalities:</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
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</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hedvig</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">p.s. for those curious about the workshop and what went on there, visit this: <a href="http://www.surrey.ac.uk/englishandlanguages/research/smg/researchprojects/combining_gender_and_classifiers_in_natural_language_dissemination_workshops.htm">http://www.surrey.ac.uk/englishandlanguages/research/smg/researchprojects/combining_gender_and_classifiers_in_natural_language_dissemination_workshops.htm</a></div>
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