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Bisang, Walter and Matthias Gerner. 2008. Inflectional speaker-role classifiers in Weining Ahmao. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (4) : 719–732.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | classifier | gender | social deixis

Language as a subject

Weining Ahmao

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper discusses the highly uncommon classifier system of Weining Ahmao, which shows a rare kind of social deixis, whereby each classifier form conveys information on speaker gender and age.