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Noun classification

Index of SIL publications on Noun classification listed by country.

See only SIL publications on Noun classification available online or for purchase from SIL International Publications.

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General works

• MALONE, Terry, author. 2004. Review of: Classifiers: a typology of noun classification, by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald.  
• MOREV, Lev N., author. 2000. "Some afterthoughts on classifiers in the Tai languages."  
• NICOLE, Jacques, author. 1999. Les classes nominales dans les langue voltaïques: esquisse d’un cadre de description.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Benin

• WIESEMANN, Ursula, author. 1988. Niger-Congo noun class systems.

Cameroon

• ANDERSON, Stephen C., author. 1980. "The noun classes of Ngyemboon-Bamileke."
• BLOOD, Cynthia, author. 1999. The Oku noun class system.  
• HEDINGER, Robert, author. 1980. "The noun classes of Akɔ́ɔ̄sē (Bakossi)."
• MBUAGBAW, Tanyi Eyong, author. 2002. "The Denya noun class system."
• SCRUGGS, Terri R., author. 1980. Segmental phonology of nouns in Yamba.
• WATTERS, John R., author. 1982. Review of: Les classes nominales dans se bantou des Grassfields. L’expansion bantoue, vol. 1 (Numéro special 9), Larry M. Hyman and Jan Voorhoeve, editors.

Congo

• BEDROSIAN, Patricia L., author. 1996. "The Mboshi noun class system."

Côte d’Ivoire

• MARCHESE, Lynell, author. 1982. Review of: Noun classes in the grassfields Bantu borderland, by Larry M. Hyman.

Ghana

• CAHILL, Michael, author. 2000. "Noun classes and phonology in Kɔnni."
• ROWLAND, Ronald, author. 1966. "Sissala noun groups."
• SNIDER, Keith L., author. 1988. "The noun class system of Proto-Guang and its implications for internal classification."

Nigeria

• ANDERSON, Stephen C., author. 1980. "The noun class system of Amo."
• BARNWELL, Katharine, author. 1969. "The noun class system in Mbembe."
• EDMONDSON, Eileen, author. 1966. "Nouns of Etung classified by their singular-plural prefix pairs."
• WATTERS, John R., author. 1980. "The Ejagam noun class system: Ekoid Bantu revisited."

Sudan

• NORTON, Russell J., author. 2000. "The noun classes of Asheron."

Americas

Brazil

• AIKHENVALD, Alexandra Y.; GREEN, Diana, authors. 1998. "Palikur and the typology of classifiers."  
• DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C.; PAYNE, Doris L., authors. 1990. "Noun classification systems of Amazonian languages."

Colombia

• BARNES, Janet, author. 1990. "Classifiers in Tuyuca."
• WILLIAMS, Larry, author. 1995. Noun classification or spatial categorization: Damana orientation verbs.  

Mexico

• HARRIS, Margaret, author. 1947. "Nombres clasificadores chontales."
• KELLER, Kathryn C., author. 1974. "Additional Chontal classifiers."
• MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1992. "El desarrollo de clases nominales en seri."
• MERRIFIELD, William R., author. 1959. "Classification of Kiowa nouns."
• PARROTT, Muriel; WATERHOUSE, Viola G., authors. 1978. "Oaxaca Chontal noun inflection and classification."

Peru

• PAYNE, David L., author. 1991. "Clasificadores nominales: La interacción de la fonología, la gramática y el léxico en la investigación comparativa del maipurán."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1986. "Noun classification in Yagua."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1987. "Noun classification in the Western Amazon."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. Available: 2011; Created: 1990. La clasificación nominal en yagua.
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. Available: 2011; Created: 1992. Clasificación nominal en la Amazonia Occidental.
• WEBER, David J., author. 2002. The structural status of Bora classifiers.  

United States

• MERRIFIELD, William R., author. 1959. "Classification of Kiowa nouns."

Asia

China

• CHAN, Jo, author. 1998. A preliminary study on the classifiers of the Pumi language.
• QIN Xiaohang, author. 2007. "Concurrent functions of Hawyiengz Zhuang classifiers."  
• SOMSONGE Burusphat, author. 2007. "A comparison of general classifiers in Tai-Kadai languages."  

Laos

• SOMSONGE Burusphat, author. 2007. "A comparison of general classifiers in Tai-Kadai languages."  

Myanmar

• SOMSONGE Burusphat, author. 2007. "A comparison of general classifiers in Tai-Kadai languages."  

Nepal

• HALE, Austin; SHRESTHACHARYA, Iswaranand, authors. 1973. "Is Newari a classifier language?."

Thailand

• SOMSONGE Burusphat, author. 2007. "A comparison of general classifiers in Tai-Kadai languages."  

Viet Nam

• DALEY, Karen A. C., author. 1996. The use of classifiers in Vietnamese narrative texts.
• DALEY, Karen A. C., author. 1998. Vietnamese Classifiers in Narrative Texts.  
• KOHNERT, Kathryn; PHAM Giang, authors. 2009. "A corpus-based analysis of Vietnamese 'classifiers' "con" and "cái"."  
• LY Toan Thang, author. 1999. "Representation of space in Vietnamese classifiers."  
• SAUL, Janice E., author. 1965. "Classifiers in Nung."

Pacific

Australia

• MACDONALD, Elfreda, author. 1964. "Notes on the noun classes of Anyula."
• STREET, Chester S., author. 1985. Murinbata noun classes.

Papua New Guinea

• ANDERSON, Michael, author. 1992. "Object classifying morphemes in Sudest."
• HEALEY, Alan; PARLIER, James, authors. Available: 2008; Created: 1978. Managalasi nominals.  
• HUISMAN, Ronald D., author. Available: 2009; Created: 1981-03. Angaataha nouns.  
• LITHGOW, Daphne; LITHGOW, David, authors. Available: 2007; Created: 1973. Muyuw noun classes.  
• YOUNG, Robert A.; YOUNG, Rosemary, authors. 1965. "The three dimensional classification system of Bena-bena nouns."

Solomon Islands

• WURM, Stephen A., author. 1981. "Notes on nominal classification systems in Äiwo, Reef Islands, Solomon Islands."