Trying to explain Mandarin Chinese's grammatical system of classifiers to someone who has never encountered Mandarin before is difficult--just ask Jennifer Wilson '08. And what exactly is a classifier ...

This article describes an unusual and complicated system of genders and classifiers in Palikur, a northern Arawak language spoken in Brazil and French Guiana. Palikur has three genders (masculine, ...

The research pursued by Distinguished SFU Professor and Royal Society of Canada Fellow Maite Taboada and her team at the Discourse Processing Lab at SFU Linguistics combines discourse analysis and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Indirect possessive hosts (IPHs) in Oceanic languages are normally described as relational classifiers, whereby the classifier characterizes ...