[systems-of-nominal-classification] Introduction round

[Hedvig Skirgård]

Hello dear friends interested in Nominal Classification,

Welcome to the mailing list on Nominal Classification. (If you are not in
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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.

Briefly about me:
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.

My interest in nominal classification:
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.

Practicalities:
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different topics separate, i.e. start new threads if the discussion changes
topic drastically.

Best,
Hedvig

p.s. for those curious about the workshop and what went on there, visit
this:
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/englishandlanguages/research/smg/researchprojects/combining_gender_and_classifiers_in_natural_language_dissemination_workshops.htm

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