[Lingtyp] Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania (2023)

[Marc Allassonnière-Tang]

Title: Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania
Subtitle: Functional and diachronic perspectives
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: John Benjamins
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt.362

Editors:
Marc Allassonnière-Tang and Marcin Kilarski

Authors:
Gunter Senft, Pori Saikia, Christian Huber, One-Soon Her, Bing-Tsiong 
Li, Erika Sandman, Francesca Di Garbo, Hiram Ring, Ellen Contini-Morava

Abstract:
Linguists have long been interested in systems of nominal classification 
due to their diverse functions as well as cognitive and cultural 
correlates. Among others, ongoing research has focused on semantic, 
functional and morphosyntactic properties of complex systems such as 
co-occurring gender and numeral classifiers. Such approaches have 
typically focused on the languages of north-western South America and 
Papua New Guinea. This volume proposes to fill in a gap in existing 
research by focusing on Asia, based on case studies from languages 
belonging to a wide range of families, i.e., Austroasiatic, 
Austronesian, Dravidian, Hmong-Mien, Indo-European, Mongolic, 
Sino-Tibetan and Tai-Kadai as well as the language isolate Nivkh. Gender 
and classifiers in these languages are approached within several 
different perspectives, i.e., functional, typological and diachronic, 
thus revealing complex patterns in their lexical and pragmatic functions 
as well as origin, development and loss. Describing and analysing such 
properties is a unique and innovative contribution of the volume.
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