Phoronyms: classifiers, class nouns, and the pseudopartitive construction

by Beckwith, Christopher I.

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Full title :Phoronyms : classifiers, class nouns, and the pseudopartitive construction / Christopher I. Beckwith.

Summary

"This is the first book devoted to the phoronym, a largely overlooked grammatical category that includes measures such as "head" in "ten head of cattle," and other types, all of which occur in the pseudopartitive construction. Both measures and noun classification (the defining feature of classifiers) are thought to occur in all languages, so the phoronym is a linguistic universal. This book is the first to combine the two major theoretical approaches to the topic and includes the first detailed studies of group classifiers and repeaters, as well as the first study of classifiers in Finnish and Russian. It also covers class nouns and their components - which are connected grammatically and semantically to both classifiers and gender - and discusses possible connections of classifiers with sublinguistic cognition. The analysis focuses on Mandarin Chinese, English, Japanese, and Thai, but Finnish, Hungarian, Tibetan, Uzbek, and other languages are also discussed."--BOOK JACKET.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Peter Lang
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2007.

The Physical Object

Description:xxvi, 223 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781433101397, 1433101394
oclc:ocn154309255
LC Classification:P299.C58
Dewey Decimal:415

1. Three Fruit Banana: The Canonical Classifier Phoronym -- 2. A Lot of Dog: The Pseudopartitive Construction -- 3. A Pod of Whales: The Group Classifier -- 4. The Unusual Suspects: Classifier Languages and the Repeater -- 5. Adding Apples and Oranges: Functional Categories and Taxonomy -- 6. Your Honorable Tea: Classifying Qualifier Terms -- 7. Wolfpacks and Businesswomen: Class Terms and Gender -- 8. A Bevy of Beauties: Phoronyms and Cognition -- Appendix A. Phoronym Pretenders -- Appendix B. The Mandarin Plural Suffix -- Appendix C. The Pseudopartitive in English Syntax -- Appendix D. Typology and Classifiers -- Appendix E. Terminology.

Subjects

Classificateurs (Linguistique) Classifiers (Linguistics) Classifiers (taalkunde) Collectiva Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mor… Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syn… Jämförande grammatik Kategorisierung -- (Sprachwiss.) Klassifikator Massennomen Morphologie (Linguistik) Morphologie (Linguistique) Nomen -- Kategorisierung (Sprachwiss.) Partitief Quantifizierung -- (Sprachwiss.) Sprachtypologie Syntax Syntaxe Typologie (Linguistique) Typology (Linguistics)