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Author Singer, Ruth (Linguist)

Title The dynamics of nominal classification : productive and lexicalised uses of gender agreement in Mawng / by Ruth Singer
Published Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2016]
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Series Pacific Linguistics [PL] ; v. 642
Pacific Linguistics PL
Contents Table of contents ; Acknowledgements ; List of figures ; List of tables ; Abbreviations and glossing conventions ; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 Preamble ; 1.2 Lexicalised agreement verbs: a new typological category ; 1.3 Main themes of the book ; 1.4 An introduction to the Mawng language
1.5 Mawng data used in this book 1.6 Overview of the book ; 2. Theoretical issues ; 2.1 Introduction ; 2.2 Idioms as constructions ; 2.2.1 Idioms, idiomaticity and formulaicity: a note on terminology ; 2.2.2 Idioms from a construction grammar perspective ; 2.3 Nominal Classification
2.4 Selectional restrictions 2.4.1 The birth of selectional restrictions with generative syntax ; 2.4.2 Selectional restrictions as presuppositions ; 3. Grammatical sketch ; 3.1 The verb ; 3.1.1 Pronominal prefixes ; 3.1.2 Complex verbs ; 3.2 Nominals ; 3.2.1 Inflecting nominals
3.2.2 Demonstratives 3.2.3 Pronouns ; 3.2.4 Other parts of speech ; 3.3 Noun phrases ; 3.4 Grammatical relations ; 3.4.1 Primary evidence for argument structure: verbal crossreferencing ; 3.4.2 Secondary evidence for argument structure 1: use of cardinal pronouns
3.4.3 Secondary evidence for argument structure 2: control 3.5 Complex sentences ; 3.6 The discourse status of verbal pronominal prefixes ; 4. Gender ; 4.1 Introduction ; 4.2 The place of Mawng gender within typologies of nominal classification ; 4.3 Mawng gender: a static sketch
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Maung language -- Grammatical categories
Maung language -- Gender
Maung language -- Nominals
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016008594
ISBN 9781614513698
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