{"product_id":"9781433101397","title":"Phoronyms : Classifiers, Class Nouns, and the Pseudopartitive Construction (Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Phoronym\" is a term coined by Beckwith (Central Eurasian studies, Indiana U.) for a grammatical category occurring in pseudopartitive construction that he believes is universal, but has been neglected by linguists unfamiliar with Asian languages. Examples include sortal classifiers, e.g., \"head\" in 'ten head of cattle,\" mensural classifiers as in \"two mugs of beer,\" and repeaters such as the Japanese hito-hako (literally, \"box one-box\"). He addresses these classifiers in Mandarin Chinese and European languages. Appendices provide further details on forms confused with phoronyms, the Mandarin plural suffix, the pseudopartitive construction in English, a typology of classifiers and other phoronyms, and specialized terminology used in the field of functional typology as vs. linguistics. Annotation 2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52529688510775,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":573.22,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9781433101397-1.jpg?v=1783200048","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9781433101397","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}