Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface & Acknowledgments xi
4. List of abbreviations xiii
5. 1.Preliminaries 1
6. 2. Nominal classification systems 7
7. 3. From Protagoras to the philosophical grammars 59
8. 4. From the ‘Romantics’ to the Neogrammarians 117
9. 5. Structuralism 159
10. 6. Contemporary studies of gender/noun classes 199
11. 7. Contemporary studies of classifiers 273
12. 8. Final discussion 321
13. References 337
14. Index
15. Index of biographical names 381
16. Index of subjects and terms 391
17. Language index 401