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Classificatory particles in Kilivila [electronic resource] / Gunter Senft.

By: Senft, Gunter, 1952-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics: Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996Description: xvii, 377 p.Subject(s): Kiriwinian language -- Particles | Kiriwinian language -- Classification | Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) -- Languages -- GrammarGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 499/.12 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Classificatory Particles in Kilivila: Grammatical and Discourse Functions -- Ch. 3. The System of Classificatory Particles in Kilivila -- Ch. 4. On the Validity of Some of the Presented Results: Six Years Later - A Restudy -- Ch. 5. Excursus: Language, Culture, and Cognition? -- Ch. 6. Closing Remarks: Using Network Models to Describe Classifier Systems -- Appendix A Consultants: 1982/1983 Study -- Appendix B Number of CP Tokens Produced for Each CP Type by Text and Word Class for Consultants in Corpus of Kilivila Speech Data -- Appendix C Consultants: 1989 Restudy -- Appendix D Some Speculations on the Origin of Classifiers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-369) and index.

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Classificatory Particles in Kilivila: Grammatical and Discourse Functions -- Ch. 3. The System of Classificatory Particles in Kilivila -- Ch. 4. On the Validity of Some of the Presented Results: Six Years Later - A Restudy -- Ch. 5. Excursus: Language, Culture, and Cognition? -- Ch. 6. Closing Remarks: Using Network Models to Describe Classifier Systems -- Appendix A Consultants: 1982/1983 Study -- Appendix B Number of CP Tokens Produced for Each CP Type by Text and Word Class for Consultants in Corpus of Kilivila Speech Data -- Appendix C Consultants: 1989 Restudy -- Appendix D Some Speculations on the Origin of Classifiers.

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