Nominal classification systems are generally categorized on the basis of morphosyntactic
criteria. However, the functional motivations for these phenomena do not coincide directly …

Sign languages have two strikingly different kinds of morphological structure: sequential and
simultaneous. The simultaneous morphology of two unrelated sign languages, American …

This thesis is a grammatical description of Enindhilyakwa, a non-Pama-Nyungan language
spoken by over 1200 people living in the Groote Eylandt archipelago in the Gulf of …

Nominal classification remains a fascinating topic but in order to make further progress we
need greater clarity of definition and analysis. Taking a Canonical Typology approach, we …

We see then, in Sign, at every level—lexical, grammatical, syntactic—a linguistic use of
space: a use that is amazingly complex, for much of what occurs linearly, sequentially …

Classifier constructions are universal to sign languages and exhibit unique properties that
arise from the nature of the visual-gestural modality. The major goals are to bring to light …

Miraña, an endangered Witotoan language spoken in the Colombian Amazon region, has
an inventory of over 60 noun class markers, most of which denote the shape of nominal …

Spoken languages employ various strategies to mark the plural of nouns, the most important
ones being affixation, reduplication, and zero marking; within one language, different …

In this chapter I review the properties of nominal classification systems. In § 2.2 I first provide
definitions of the most commonly used terms, and in § 2.3 I introduce the main differences …

Whether and to what extent conceptual structure is universal is of great importance for
understanding the nature of human concepts. Two major factors that might affect concepts …