Classificatory Particles in Kilivila

by Gunter Senft

Common among the world's languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammatical division of the noun lexicon into distinct classes that ultimately derives from the human need to classify and filter data on various levels while communicating. In this book, Senft describes and develops a grammar of classificatory particles in Kilivila, an Austronesian language of the Trobriand Islanders in Papua New Guinea. Drawing largely on his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195092112
• ISBN13: 9780195092110
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 10.0"