Classificatory particles in Kilivila / / Gunter Senft

• Autore: Senft Gunter <1952->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 377 pages)
• Disciplina: 499/.12
• Soggetto topico: Kiriwinian language - Particles; Kiriwinian language
• Soggetto geografico: Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) Languages Grammar
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Classificatory particles in Kilivila
• ISBN: 0-19-772135-4; 1-280-52764-1; 0-19-535783-3; 1-4294-1550-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813043803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics.