Number--Constructions and Semantics : Case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania
Papuan languages FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY sähkökirjat vertaileva kielitiede kielimaantiede etnolingvistiikka numerot lukusanat yksikkö monikko
John Benjamins Publishing Company
2014
EISBN 9781306472548
One size fits all? : on the grammar and semantics of singularity and plurality / Anne Storch & Gerrit J. Dimmendaal.
Number and noun categorisation : a view from north-west Amazonia / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald.
Pluractionality and the distribution of number marking across categories / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal.
Figuratively speaking.
number in Kharia / John Peterson.
Number in Kambaata : a category between inflection and derivation / Yvonne Treis.
The history of numeral classifiers in Teiwa (Papuan) / Marian Klamer.
Number and numeration in Nêlêmwa and Zuanga (New Caledonia) : ontologies, definiteness and pragmatics / Isabelle Bril.
When number meets classification : the linguistic expression of number in Baïnounk languages / Alexander Cobbinah & Friederike Lüpke.
Number in Dinka / Torben Andersen.
Counting chickens in Luwo / Anne Storch.
Number in South-Bauchi West Languages (Chadic, Nigeria) / Bernard Caron.
Number and numerals in Zande / Helma Pasch.
Numerals in Papuan languages of the Greater Awyu family / Lourens de Vries.
This book is the outcome of several decades of research experience, with contributions by leading scholars based on long-term field research. It combines approaches from descriptive linguistics, anthropological linguistics, socio-historical studies, areal linguistics, and social anthropology. The key concern of this ground-breaking volume is to investigate the linguistic means of expressing number and countable amounts, which differ greatly in the world's languages. It provides insights into common number-marking devices and their not-so-common usages, but also into phenomena such as the absence of plurals, or transnumeral forms. The different contributions to the volume show that number is of considerable semantic complexity in many languages worldwide, expressing all kinds of extendedness, multiplicity, salience, size, and so on. This raises a number of challenging questions regarding what exactly is described under the slightly monolithic label of 'number' in most descriptive approaches to the languages of the world.
Number and noun categorisation : a view from north-west Amazonia / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald.
Pluractionality and the distribution of number marking across categories / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal.
Figuratively speaking.
number in Kharia / John Peterson.
Number in Kambaata : a category between inflection and derivation / Yvonne Treis.
The history of numeral classifiers in Teiwa (Papuan) / Marian Klamer.
Number and numeration in Nêlêmwa and Zuanga (New Caledonia) : ontologies, definiteness and pragmatics / Isabelle Bril.
When number meets classification : the linguistic expression of number in Baïnounk languages / Alexander Cobbinah & Friederike Lüpke.
Number in Dinka / Torben Andersen.
Counting chickens in Luwo / Anne Storch.
Number in South-Bauchi West Languages (Chadic, Nigeria) / Bernard Caron.
Number and numerals in Zande / Helma Pasch.
Numerals in Papuan languages of the Greater Awyu family / Lourens de Vries.
This book is the outcome of several decades of research experience, with contributions by leading scholars based on long-term field research. It combines approaches from descriptive linguistics, anthropological linguistics, socio-historical studies, areal linguistics, and social anthropology. The key concern of this ground-breaking volume is to investigate the linguistic means of expressing number and countable amounts, which differ greatly in the world's languages. It provides insights into common number-marking devices and their not-so-common usages, but also into phenomena such as the absence of plurals, or transnumeral forms. The different contributions to the volume show that number is of considerable semantic complexity in many languages worldwide, expressing all kinds of extendedness, multiplicity, salience, size, and so on. This raises a number of challenging questions regarding what exactly is described under the slightly monolithic label of 'number' in most descriptive approaches to the languages of the world.
