Classifier declinations in an isolating language: On a rarity in weining ahmao

Language and Linguistics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 579-623

  Gerner, Matthias ^a   Bisang, Walter ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ahmao; China; Indexical; Inflectional classifier; Miao; Size classifier

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952882056     PISSN: 1606822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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