Phoronyms : Classifiers, Class Nouns, and the

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 pseudopartiti

Christopher I. Beckwith is Professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Transcription and Transliteration
Abbreviations
Introduction
Three Fruit Banana: The Canonical Classifier Phoronym	p. 1
A Lot of Dog: The Pseudopartitive Construction	p. 38
A Pod of Whales: The Group Classifier	p. 67
The Unusual Suspects: Classifier Languages and the Repeater	p. 94
Adding Apples and Oranges: Functional Categories and Taxonomy	p. 111
Your Honorable Tea: Classifying Qualifier Terms	p. 128
Wolfpacks and Businesswomen: Class Terms and Gender	p. 140
A Bevy of Beauties: Phoronyms and Cognition	p. 157
Phoronym Pretenders	p. 169
The Mandarin Plural Suffix	p. 175
The Pseudopartitive in English Syntax	p. 177
Typology and Classifiers	p. 181
Terminology	p. 191
References	p. 207
Index	p. 217
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Phoronyms : Classifiers, Class Nouns, and the Pseudopartitive Construction

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