Noun classifiers and the grammaticalization variable: Making sense of nominal classification systems

Grinevald, Colette

doi:10.1075/tsl.49.17gri

In:New Reflections on Grammaticalization
Edited by Ilse Wischer and Gabriele Diewald
[Typological Studies in Language 49] 2002
► pp. 259–275

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Making sense of nominal classification systems

Noun classifiers and the grammaticalization variable

Colette Grinevald | Université Lumière, Lyon 2; CNRS: Dynamique du Langage

Published online: 12 April 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.49.17gri

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