A major linguistic study of nominal classification systems across a variety of languages, first published in 2000.

Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. Languages of South-East Asia have classifiers used with numerals, while most Indo-European languages

This text offers a cross-linguistic account of classifiers. Its range of exemplification includes major and minor languages from every continent and several of

This book offers the first comprehensive survey of the study of gender and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics. Based on an analysis of ov