William Annis gives us a wonderful review of how classification occurs in natural languages, and the many ways you can incorporate it in your langs.
(Small note, we will no longer be putting translated greetings on the short episodes.)
Links and Resources:
- Austronesian Possession (and another link)
- List of Chinese Classifiers (Wikipedia)
- Noun Classification in Dakelh
- Bantu Noun Class Systems
- Navajo Classifacatory Verbs (Wikipedia)
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Sylvia Sotomayor
Aikhenvald’s book on Classifiers also goes into lots and lots of detail about everything you discussed on this podcast.
wm.annis
Holy cow! I know her work on evidentiality, but somehow missed out knowing about her classifier work. I will have to ransack a library soon…