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Classificatory Particles in Kilivila - Senft, Gunter
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Common among the world's languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammatical division of the noun lexicon into distinct classes that ultimately derives from the human need to classify and filter data on various levels while communicating. In this book, Senft describes and develops a grammar of classificatory particles in Kilivila, an Austronesian language of the Trobriand Islanders in Papua New Guinea. Drawing largely on his anthropological and linguistic fieldwork in the islands, and emphasizing ...

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Classificatory Particles in Kilivila 1996, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195092110

Hardcover