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

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 ve...

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1. Verfasser: Singer, Ruth (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston de Gruyter Mouton [2016]
Schriftenreihe:Pacific linguistics volume 642
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 268 Seiten)
ISBN:9781614513698
9781501501203
9781614513704
DOI:10.1515/9781614513698

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