Classifiers in Tarina  

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Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 36 no. 4 (1994), page 407-466.
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This paper describes an unusual and complicated system of classifiers and agreement in Tariana (North Arawak, Brazil). Tariana has gender agreement in verb-argument constructions, and classifier agreement in head- modifier constructions. It has three subtypes of classifiers: numeral classifiers, demonstrative classifiers, and verb-incorporated, concordial, and genitive classifiers. Classifiers have anaphoric and discourse-pragmatic functions. Almost every derivational affix can be used as a classifier to mark agreement. Also, noun incorporation is used as an agreement device in head-modifier constructions, under specific discourse conditions. Thus, classifiers constitute a virtually open class of elements. The system of classifiers is very much semantically motivated. The unusual system of classifiers and agreement in Tariana provides important suggestions for a typology of classifiers, such as: (a) the existence of demonstrative classifiers as a special type; (b) the coexistence of more than one system of noun categorization used for different kinds of agreement in one language (called "split" system); and (c) the possibility of an "open" character for a system of classifiers.

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