Number--constructions and semantics
Subtitle: case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania
By: edited by Anne Storch, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, University of Cologne
Series: Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS) -- volume 151; Studies in language companion series -- v. 151.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9789027259165; 9789027270634
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Papuan languages; Semantics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: One size fits all? : on the grammar and semantics of singularity and plurality / Anne Storch & Gerrit J. Dimmendaal; title: Number and noun categorisation : a view from north-west Amazonia / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald; title: Pluractionality and the distribution of number marking across categories / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal; title: Figuratively speaking - number in Kharia / John Peterson; title: Number in Kambaata : a category between inflection and derivation / Yvonne Treis; title: The history of numeral classifiers in Teiwa (Papuan) / Marian Klamer; title: Number and numeration in Nêlêmwa and Zuanga (New Caledonia) : ontologies, definiteness and pragmatics / Isabelle Bril; title: When number meets classification : the linguistic expression of number in Baïnounk languages / Alexander Cobbinah & Friederike Lüpke; title: Number in Dinka / Torben Andersen; title: Counting chickens in Luwo / Anne Storch; title: Number in South-Bauchi West Languages (Chadic, Nigeria) / Bernard Caron; title: Number and numerals in Zande / Helma Pasch; title: Numerals in Papuan languages of the Greater Awyu family / Lourens de Vries.