Word Classes in Eskimo–Aleut Languages

Abstract It was once claimed that languages of the Eskimo–Aleut family contain just one lexical category: Nouns. The history of this claim is detailed in Sadock (1999) and further discussed in Woodbury (1985) and Mithun (2009, 2017b), among others. In fact, these languages show robust, distinct Noun...

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Main Author: Mithun, Marianne
Format: Book Part
Language:unknown
Published: Oxford University Press 2023
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198852889.013.25
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