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The Dynamics of Nominal Classification: Productive and Lexicalised Uses of Gender Agreement in Mawng

The Dynamics of Nominal Classification: Productive and Lexicalised Uses of Gender Agreement in Mawng

Hardcover

Series: Pacific Linguistics [Pl], Book 642

Literary CriticismLinguistics

ISBN10: 1614514240
ISBN13: 9781614514244
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Feb 22 2016
Pages: 285
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The use of grammatical gender in the Australian language Mawng calls into question prevailing ideas about the functions of nominal classification systems. Mawng's gender system has a strong semantic basis and plays an important role in the construction of meaning in discourse. Gender agreement in verbs is frequently lexicalized, creating idioms called lexicalised agreement verbs that are structurally similar to noun-verb idioms. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in nominal classification or cross-linguistic approaches to idioms.

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