Article ID: CBB001450842

The Place of Classifiers in the History of Linguistics (2014)

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This article examines the approaches to classifiers within the Western tradition, ranging from the earliest accounts of the languages of Mesoamerica and East Asia from the 16th-17th centuries to ongoing discussions regarding their semantic motivation and functionality. I show that in spite of the limited attention they attracted before the 1970s, classifiers have played an important role in discussions concerning such notions as the functions of grammatical categories, the distinction between grammar and lexicon as well as the cognitive and cultural correlates of linguistic structure. In addition, I attribute common assumptions about classifiers to projections of typical properties of grammatical gender and, more generally, semantic and morphosyntactic properties of non-classifier languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Authors & Contributors
Saraiva, Luís
Jami, Catherine
Feola, Vittoria
Peter Auger
Malara, Ivan
Schottenhammer, Angela
Concepts
Linguistics; philology
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Discipline formation
Travel; exploration
Science and culture
Mathematics
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
Early modern
19th century
15th century
Places
Europe
East Asia
England
China
Portugal
Japan
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
British East India Company
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