TY - CHAP
T1 - Classifiers as Priming Devices, or “Classifiers Tell Us What We Already Know”
AU - Goldwasser, Orly
N1 - Proceedings of the International Conference Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 16-18, 2021: Language, semantics and cognition: saying and conceptualizing the world from Ancient Egypt to modern times
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The impetus for writing this article came from a discussion with Colette Grinevald about (pronounced) classifiers in Jakaltek Popti’.¹ She highlighted two relevant facts for my argument in this article:a. In Jakaltek, classifiers are obligatory for referential nouns. When referring to a pig, one must say [ANIMAL] pig. Eliminating a classifier would be grammatically incorrect. Yet the addressee would understand the meaning also by the word alone, that is, *‘pig.’b. In Jakaltek and many other classifier languages, “classifiers tell us, in general, what we already KNOW, e.g., that a pig is an animal” (Grinevald, personal communication).If this
AB - The impetus for writing this article came from a discussion with Colette Grinevald about (pronounced) classifiers in Jakaltek Popti’.¹ She highlighted two relevant facts for my argument in this article:a. In Jakaltek, classifiers are obligatory for referential nouns. When referring to a pig, one must say [ANIMAL] pig. Eliminating a classifier would be grammatically incorrect. Yet the addressee would understand the meaning also by the word alone, that is, *‘pig.’b. In Jakaltek and many other classifier languages, “classifiers tell us, in general, what we already KNOW, e.g., that a pig is an animal” (Grinevald, personal communication).If this
U2 - 10.2307/jj.28697864.9
DO - 10.2307/jj.28697864.9
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SN - 9781950343140
T3 - Yale Egyptology Studies
SP - 75
EP - 109
BT - Language, Semantics, and Cognition in Ancient Egypt and Beyond
A2 - Chantrain, Gaëlle
PB - Yale Egyptology
CY - New Haven, CT
ER -