Number--constructions and semantics case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania / edited by Anne Storch, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, University of Cologne.

Other author Storch, Anne.
Other author Dimmendaal, Gerrit Jan.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Descriptionxiv, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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SeriesStudies in Language Companion Series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; volume 151
Studies in language companion series ; v. 151. ^A654669
Contents One size fits all? : on the grammar and semantics of singularity and plurality / Anne Storch & Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- Number and noun categorisation : a view from north-west Amazonia / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- Pluractionality and the distribution of number marking across categories / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- Figuratively speaking - number in Kharia / John Peterson -- Number in Kambaata : a category between inflection and derivation / Yvonne Treis -- The history of numeral classifiers in Teiwa (Papuan) / Marian Klamer -- Number and numeration in Nêlêmwa and Zuanga (New Caledonia) : ontologies, definiteness and pragmatics / Isabelle Bril -- When number meets classification : the linguistic expression of number in Baïnounk languages / Alexander Cobbinah & Friederike Lüpke -- Number in Dinka / Torben Andersen -- Counting chickens in Luwo / Anne Storch -- Number in South-Bauchi West Languages (Chadic, Nigeria) / Bernard Caron -- Number and numerals in Zande / Helma Pasch -- Numerals in Papuan languages of the Greater Awyu family / Lourens de Vries.
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LCCN 2013046346
ISBN9789027259165 (Hb : alk. paper)

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