Chipewyan Classificatory Verbs

Carter, Robin M.

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“…For example, Harry Hoijer (1904-1976 identified the following classes of objects classified by classificatory verbs in Chiricahua-Mescalero Apache, now spoken in New Mexico: round, long, living being, set of objects, rigid container with contents, fabric-like objects, set of parallel objects, masses, rope-like objects (Hoijer 1945: 18-22). Hoijer's examples were meant to illustrate the point that in contrast with Indo-European gender, the choice of a classificatory verb stem is based on semantic considerations:…”

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“…This can be illustrated by the misinterpretations of grammatical meanings conveyed by the verbs as lexical and redundant distinctions in the works of Otto Jespersen (1860Jespersen ( -1943 and Stephen Ullmann (1914-1976.…”

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“…For example, according to Beckwith (2007: 24), "Nouns in classifier languages are no less vivid, concrete, and well-defined than are English nouns. " Evidence for a distinction between count and mass nouns in Mandarin and Cantonese was given by Cheng & Sybesma (1999), who proposed that in contrast with languages such as English, where the count:mass distinction is found at the noun level in plural marking, in the two Chinese languages it is reflected syntactically at the classifier level. 10 According to the authors, the distinction is reflected in two types of classifiers, i.e., 'count-classifiers', which "name the unit of natural semantic partitioning", e.g., the general classifier gè, as opposed to 'massifiers' or 'massclassifiers', which "create a unit of measure", e.g., wǎn "bowl" (p. 515).…”

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The Place of Classifiers in the History of Linguistics

Kilarski

2014

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Summary This article examines the approaches to classifiers within the Western tradition, ranging from the earliest accounts of the languages of Mesoamerica and East Asia from the 16th-17th centuries to ongoing discussions regarding their semantic motivation and functionality. I show that in spite of the limited attention they attracted before the 1970s, classifiers have played an important role in discussions concerning such notions as the functions of grammatical categories, the distinction between grammar and lexicon as well as the cognitive and cultural correlates of linguistic structure. In addition, I attribute common assumptions about classifiers to projections of typical properties of grammatical gender and, more generally, semantic and morphosyntactic properties of non-classifier languages.

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Kilarski

2014

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“…Elaborate systems are reported only from two language families, Athapaskan (Hoijer 1945, Davidson et al 1963, Carver 1976, Witherspoon 1977 and Hokan (Talmy 1972, Moshinsky 1974); a more limited system is found in Dakota (Boas & Deloria 1941:126-27).…”

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Semantic universals in classifier systems

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1994

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Abstract. Kiyomi (1992) argues that neither animacy nor shape can be established as the primary semantic distinction in noun classification systems. However, if one distinguishes different types of classification systems according to their grammatical and ultimately semantic-pragmatic function-noun classes, numeral classifiers, possessive classifiers, and classifiers of spatial predication-then subtle but regular crosslinguistic generalizations can be made. There is a different hierarchy of semantic distinctions associated with each type of classifier. A number of apparently anomalous cases can be explained in terms of diachronic processes of grammaticalization, by which semantic distinctions found with one type of classifier are occasionally transferred to a construction characterized by another type of classifier. The distinctions found with each classifier can be accounted for by the function of the construction in which they are found.

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“…z. B. Hass (1948),Landar (1964Landar ( ,1967,Krauss (1968),Carter (1976),Rushforth (1991).Brought to you by | Nanyang Technological University Authenticated Download Date | 6/8/15 10:29 AM…”

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Eine Klasse für sich: Klassifizierende Verben in Deutscher Gebärdensprache
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1997
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Chipewyan Classificatory Verbs

Cited by 21 publications

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The Place of Classifiers in the History of Linguistics

The Place of Classifiers in the History of Linguistics

Semantic universals in classifier systems

Eine Klasse für sich: Klassifizierende Verben in Deutscher Gebärdensprache

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