Nominal Classification in Uitoto

Bibliographic Data

ID4559899
AuthorsGabriele Petersen De Piñeros (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume73
Issue4
Pages389-409
Publication date2007-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/523771
OpenAlexW2027925769
LanguageEN
Citations received44

This paper contributes to the discussion of Amazonian systems of nominal classification by providing the first description of the system of Uitoto, spoken in the Colombian Amazon. Two gender markers and a set of more than 100 classifiers, most of them denoting physical properties, are described with respect to their distribution and eventual patterns of agreement, their degree of grammaticalization, and their discursive function. Special attention is given to the relation between classifiers and nouns and to the formation of pro‐forms with classifiers, stressing the importance of classifiers in the lexical genesis of the language

Data mining · Function (biology · Grammaticalization · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Noun · Part of speech · Relation (database · Set (abstract data type · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Cultural and political discourse analysis · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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