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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 12:19:31
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: The Typology and Diachrony of Nominal Classification: Pasesr

 


Title: The Typology and Diachrony of Nominal Classification 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/the-typology-and-diachrony-of-nominal-classification 


Author: Matthias Benjamin Pasesr

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932168 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

There are two ways for a language to classify its nouns: either by means of
classifiers, which specify the semantics of the classified noun, or by means
of grammatical gender, which groups all nouns of a language into formal
classes.

This thesis investigates the common assumption that classifier systems may
develop into grammatical gender systems. Because this diachronic phenomenon
has not yet been documented for any language, the likeliness that such a
development would occur is examined by means of a typological study of
synchronic systems.

In analyzing the data, this study adopts a new perspective on the development
of nominal classification by separating how the means of formal expression
develops from the development of those components that have to do with a
system's semantic transparency.

This twofold account for the data from a variety sample of 40 languages shows
that there is indeed a number of systems that lie at the intersection of
classifiers and gender systems, but that a direct shift from classifier to
gender is not likely to occur.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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