Functions of nominal classification

Language Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue , 2013, Pages 263-299

  Contini Morava, Ellen ^a   Kilarski, Marcin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Classifiers; Functional typology; Noun classes; Pragmatic functions; Semantic functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881519451     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2013.03.002     Document Type: Review

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