Classifiers.

Allan, Keith

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ERIC Number: EJ170009

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1977

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Classifiers

Allan, Keith

Language, 53, 2, 285-311, Jun 77

Investigation of data from many languages has the following results: (1) the characteristics of classifier languages are distinguished, and four types identified; (2) defining criteria are postulated for classifiers, and it is discovered that every classifier is composed of one or more out of seven categories of classification. (CHK)

Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Classification, Language Patterns, Language Universals, Morphology (Languages), Nouns, Phrase Structure, Sentence Structure, Surface Structure

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