{"product_id":"genders-and-classifiers","title":"Genders and Classifiers","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages. Every language has some means of categorizing objects into humans, or animates, or by their shape, form, size, and function. The most widespread are linguistic genders - grammatical classes of nouns based on core semantic properties such as sex (female and male), animacy, humanness, and also shape and size. Classifiers of several types also serve to\n\u003cbr\u003ecategorize entities. Numeral classifiers occur with number words, possessive classifiers appear in the expressions of possession, and verbal classifiers are used on a verb, categorizing its argument. These\n\u003cbr\u003evaried sorts of genders and classifiers can also occur together. This volume elaborates on the expression, usage, history, and meanings of noun categorization devices, exploring their various facets across the languages of South America and Asia, which are known for the diversity of their noun categorization.The volume begins with a typological introduction that outlines the types of noun categorization devices and their expression, scope, functions, and development, as\n\u003cbr\u003ewell as sociocultural aspects of their use. The following nine chapters provide in-depth studies of genders and classifiers of different types in a range of South American and Asian languages and\n\u003cbr\u003elanguage families, including Arawak languages, Zamucoan, Hmong, and Japanese.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43934941413614,"sku":"9780198842019","price":187.7,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198842019.jpg?v=1706221776","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/genders-and-classifiers","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}