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

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

Linguists have long been interested in systems of nominal classification due to their diverse functions as well as cognitive and cultural correlates. Among othe

Classification is a popular topic in typological, descriptive and theoretical linguistics. This volume is the first to deal specifically with the diachrony of l