Senft, Gunter, 1952-

Classificatory particles in Kilivila [electronic resource] / Gunter Senft. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. - xvii, 377 p. - Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics . - Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics. .

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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Kiriwinian language--Particles.
Kiriwinian language--Classification.


Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)--Languages--Grammar.


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