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Phoronyms: Classifiers, Class Nouns, and the Pseudopartitive Construction (Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics) by Beckwith Christopher I. is a language learning available to read on EtoBox.
What is Phoronyms: Classifiers, Class Nouns, and the Pseudopartitive Construction (Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics) about?
This is the first book devoted to the phoronym, a largely overlooked grammatical category that includes measures such as «cup» in «a cup of tea», classifiers such as «head» in «ten head of cattle», and other types, all of which occur in the pseudopartitive construction. Both measures and noun classification (the defining feature of classifiers) are thought to occur in all languages, so the phoronym is a linguistic universal. This book is the first to combine the two major theoretical approaches
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- Author
- Beckwith Christopher I.
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781433101397
- Category
- language learning
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Language Learning, Linguistics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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