Almost all languages have some grammatical means for the linguistic categorization of nouns. Well-known systems such as the lexical numeral classifiers of South-East Asia, on the one hand, and the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classes of Indo-European languages, on the other, are the extremes of a contiuum. They can have a similar semantic basis, and one can develop from the other. Classifiers come in different morphological forms; they can be free nouns, clitics, or affixes.
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A complement clause is used instead of a noun phrase; for example one can say either I heard [the result] or I heard [that England beat France]. Languages differ in the grammatical properties of complement clauses, and the types of verbs which take them. Some languages lack a complement clause construction but instead employ other construction types to achieve similar ends; these are called complementation strategies.
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Goddard (U. of New England) presents this book for advanced students and professionals in linguistics describing the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) framework for investigating semantic primes cross-linguistically, and detailing a number of metalanguage studies and problems therein. Chapters look at topics that include: the specificational "be" and abstract "this/it," a systematic table of semantic elements, semantic primes in Amharic, semantic primes and their grammar in the polysynthetic language of East Cree, hyperpolysemy in Bunuba (Australia), the ethnogeometry of Makasai (East Timor), and the semantics of "inalienable possession" in Koromu (Papua New Guinea).
