About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherBenjamins Publishing Company, John
ISBN-109027246122
ISBN-139789027246127
eBay Product ID (ePID)171611835
Product Key Features
Number of Pages419 Pages
Publication NameNominal Classification : a History of Its Study from the Classical Period to the Present
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
SubjectGeneral, Linguistics / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines
AuthorMarcin Kilarski
SeriesStudies in the History of the Language Sciences Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight31.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2013-036007
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number121
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal410.1
SynopsisThis book offers the first comprehensive survey of the study of gender and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics. Based on an analysis of over 200 genetically and typologically diverse languages, the author shows that these seemingly arbitrary and redundant categories play in fact a central role in the lexicon, grammar and the organization of discourse. As a result, the often contradictory approaches to their functionality and semantic motivation encapsulate the evolving conceptions of such issues as cognitive and cultural correlates of linguistic structure, the diverse functions of grammatical categories, linguistic complexity, agreement phenomena and the interplay between lexicon and grammar. The combination of a typological and historiographic perspective adopted here allows the reader to appreciate the detail and insight of earlier, supposedly 'prescientific' accounts in light of the data now available and to examine contemporary discussions in the context of prevailing conceptions in the study of language at different points in its history since antiquity.
LC Classification NumberP203.K55 2013
