Noun Classification in the Western Amazon  

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Payne, Doris L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 9 no. 1 (1987), page 21-43.
Fulltext: 09_01_Payne_01.pdf (942.45KB)

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Based on morphosyntactic and typological characteristics, Dixon (1986) differentiates between poun class and noun classification systems. Data from the western Amazon area suggest that this dichotomy is an oversimplification. Moving roughly from north to south, Western Amazonian languages fall into four groups: those with (1) systems evidencing a mixture of Dixon's noun class and classification features; (2) no noun classification features; (3) a mixture of Dixon's noun class and classification features, plus verbal incorporation of classifiers; and (4) dominantly verbal incorporation. Furthermore, classifiers in at least groups (I) and (3) have both classic inflectional and derivational characteristics. The shared features in groups (1) and (3) may be a result of language contact, whereas the shared features in groups (3) and (4) are independent developments.

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