Genders and Classifiers A Cross-Linguistic Typology

by Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.; Mihas, Elena I.

• ISBN13: 9780198842019
• ISBN10: 0198842015
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-10-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), Tariana (2003), and Manambu (2008) in addition to essays on various typological and areal topics. She is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality (OUP, 2018) and co-editor, with R. M. W. Dixon, of The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology (CUP, 2017). Her other major publications with OUP include Imperatives and Commands (2010), Languages of the Amazon (2012), The Art of Grammar (2014), How Gender Shapes the World (2016) and Serial Verbs (2018).
Elena Mihas has been studying Asheninka and Ashaninka varieties of Kampa Arawak of Peru since 2008, and received her PhD in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Upper Perene Narratives of History, Landscape and Ritual (Nebraska University Press, 2014), A Grammar of Alto Perene (Arawak) (Mouton, 2015), and Conversational Structures of Alto Perene (Benjamins, 2017), and of multiple papers on the grammatical aspects of Kampa languages. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, A United States Department of Education National Resource Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Table of Contents

Preface
Notes on the contributors
Abbreviations
1. Noun categorization devices: A cross-linguistic perspective, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
2. Genders and classifiers in Kampa (Arawak) languages of Peru, Elena Mihas
3. Classifiers in Shiwilu (Kawapanan): Exploring typologically salient properties, Pilar M. Valenzuela
4. A view from the North: genders and classifiers in Arawak languages of north-west Amazonia, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
5. Possessive classifiers in Zamucoan, Luca Ciucci and Pier Marco Bertinetto
6. The elusive verbal classifiers in 'Witoto', Katarzyna I. Wojtylak
7. Multifunctionality of deictic classifiers in the Toba language (Guaycuruan), Cristina Messineo and Paola Cuneo
8. Classifiers in Hmong, Nathan M. White
9. Numeral classifiers in Japanese, Nerida Jarkey and Hiroko Komatsu
10. Numeral classifiers in Munya, a Tibeto-Burman language, Junwei Bai
Index of authors
Index of languages, language families, and linguistic areas
Index of subjects