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

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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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]
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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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