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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464450503321

Autore

Singer Ruth (Linguist)

Titolo

The dynamics of nominal classification : productive and lexicalised uses of gender agreement in Mawng / / Ruth Singer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, Germany : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-5015-0120-8

1-61451-369-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Collana

Pacific Linguistics, , 1448-8310 ; ; Volume 642

Disciplina

499/.15

Soggetti

Maung language - Grammatical categories

Maung language - Gender

Maung language - Nominals

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations and glossing conventions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical issues -- 3. Grammatical sketch -- 4. Gender -- 5. Restricted argument verbs: verbs with very narrow selectional restrictions -- 6. Lexicalised agreement -- 7. A typological perspective on Mawng verbs with non-canonical agreement -- 8. Conclusions: towards a more dynamic understanding of nominal classification and its lexicalisation -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1: Pronominal prefixes -- Appendix 2: Wurakak ‘Crow’ text (AD Text 1) -- Appendix 3: Full list of the 28 language sample -- Appendix 4: Email sent to language experts for survey of lexicalised agreement -- Appendix 5: Full list of all non-canonical verbs recorded in Mawng -- Appendix 6: Sources of Mawng material -- Author index -- Subject index -- Language index

Sommario/riassunto

The use of grammatical gender in the Australian language Mawng calls into question prevailing ideas about the functions of nominal



classification systems. Mawng’s gender system has a strong semantic basis and plays an important role in the construction of meaning in discourse. Gender agreement in verbs is frequently lexicalized, creating idioms called lexicalised agreement verbs that are structurally similar to noun-verb idioms. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in nominal classification or cross-linguistic approaches to idioms.