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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813043803321

Autore

Senft Gunter <1952->

Titolo

Classificatory particles in Kilivila / / Gunter Senft

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996

ISBN

0-19-772135-4

1-280-52764-1

0-19-535783-3

1-4294-1550-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 377 pages)

Collana

Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics

Disciplina

499/.12

Soggetti

Kiriwinian language - Particles

Kiriwinian language

Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) Languages Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliography: p355-369. _ Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-369) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.