The Dynamics of Nominal Classification : : Productive and Lexicalised Uses of Gender Agreement in Mawng /

The Dynamics of Nominal Classification : : Productive and Lexicalised Uses of Gender Agreement in Mawng / / Ruth Singer.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
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Singer, Ruth,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Pacific Linguistics [PL] , 642
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Physical Description:1 online resource (268 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Abbreviations and glossing conventions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical issues
  • 3. Grammatical sketch
  • 4. Gender
  • 5. Restricted argument verbs: verbs with very narrow selectional restrictions
  • 6. Lexicalised agreement
  • 7. A typological perspective on Mawng verbs with non-canonical agreement
  • 8. Conclusions: towards a more dynamic understanding of nominal classification and its lexicalisation
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix 1: Pronominal prefixes
  • Appendix 2: Wurakak ‘Crow’ text (AD Text 1)
  • Appendix 3: Full list of the 28 language sample
  • Appendix 4: Email sent to language experts for survey of lexicalised agreement
  • Appendix 5: Full list of all non-canonical verbs recorded in Mawng
  • Appendix 6: Sources of Mawng material
  • Author index
  • Subject index
  • Language index

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