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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Beteilige Person: Singer, Ruth (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Boston de Gruyter Mouton [2016]
Schriftenreihe:Pacific linguistics volume 642
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513698
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513698
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513698
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513698
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513698
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513698
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513698
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513698
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513698
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513698
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
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 268 Seiten)
ISBN:9781614513698
9781501501203
9781614513704
DOI:10.1515/9781614513698