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Senft Gunter <1952-> |
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Titolo |
Classificatory particles in Kilivila [[electronic resource] /] / Gunter Senft |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-52764-1 |
0-19-535783-3 |
1-4294-1550-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (396 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Kiriwinian language - Particles |
Kiriwinian language |
Electronic books. |
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) Languages Grammar |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-369) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Classificatory Particles in Kilivila: Grammatical and Discourse Functions -- Ch. 3. The System of Classificatory Particles in Kilivila -- Ch. 4. On the Validity of Some of the Presented Results: Six Years Later - A Restudy -- Ch. 5. Excursus: Language, Culture, and Cognition? -- Ch. 6. Closing Remarks: Using Network Models to Describe Classifier Systems -- Appendix A Consultants: 1982/1983 Study -- Appendix B Number of CP Tokens Produced for Each CP Type by Text and Word Class for Consultants in Corpus of Kilivila Speech Data -- Appendix C Consultants: 1989 Restudy -- Appendix D Some Speculations on the Origin of Classifiers. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This study examines the system of classificatory particles - the divisions of the noun lexicon into distinct classes - in Kilivila, the Austronesian language of the Trobrian Islanders of Papua New Guinea. The author uses data gathered in field research. |
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