Good evening, afternoon, or morning to you, people of r/conlangs. Today's Saturday, and that means it's time for another typological paper! Once again, there will be some prompts for you to discuss in the comments.
Classifiers and Noun Classes: Semantics (Aikhenvald)
This week's paper was submitted by u/Lichen000 and talks about the typology of noun categorization, or more specifically, about the typology of noun classes and classifiers. If you don't know what either of those are, worry not! You can check out the wikipedia pages of noun classes and classifiers here, or you can simply read the linked paper. Here are this week's prompts:
- Does your language have noun classes or classifiers?
- How many classes/classifiers are there?
- How does the type of noun categorization that is present in your language appear in morphosyntactic constructions? (e.g. agreement etc)
- How do the noun classes/classifiers reflect your conpeople's worldview, if at all?
- Based on what properties are nouns categorized in your language?
Remember to try to comment on other people's languages
Submit your papers here!
So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next Saturday, and happy conlanging!