Counting the Family: Family Group Classifiers in Yi (Tibeto-Burman) Languages  

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Bradley, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 43 no. 1 (Mar. 2001), page 1-17.
Fulltext: Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 1-17.pdf (1.8MB)

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A number of quite closely related Yi branch Tibeto-Burman languages of southwestern China and adjacent Southeast Asia have specific collective numeral classifiers for family groups. These are morphosyntactically distinct from other classifiers: most of them have two syllables comprising two morphemes, while all other classifiers are monomorphemic, and nearly all others are monosyllabic. Family group classifiers show differing degrees of transparency and paradigmatization in different languages within the group, with the most opaque systems and fullest paradigms in certain Central Yi sub- branch languages, such as Lisu.

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