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CLASSIFIERS IN BENGALI

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Rácová A.
Asian and African Studies
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2007
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vol. 16
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issue 2
125 - 137
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Classifiers are affixes that categorize entities into common classes on the basis of shared properties. They are characteristic features of many Asian, American, and African languages. Though typically not occurring in Indo-European languages, they can be found in the Eastern group of New Indo-Aryan languages, namely Assamese, Oriya and Bengali. Emaneau pointed out that they probably started to be used under the influence of Southeast Asian languages in India. According to Chatterji in Bengali they were in use as early as its middle period (1200-1800). This study attempts to provide information on the present occurrence and usage of classifiers in Bengali. The conclusions are based on the analysis of texts by seven Bengali authors. The relevant affixes are regarded as classifiers when they are attached to a noun and as numeral classifiers when they are attached to numerals. In the latter case they occur in various syntactic constructions. Besides their main function of classifying objects into classes Bengali classifiers serve as definitives, substantivizators and noun substitutes.
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CATEGORY OF NOMINAL CLASSES IN INDONESIAN AND ITS REINTERPRETATION

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Krupa V.
Asian and African Studies
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2004
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vol. 13
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issue 2
172 - 178
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In the so-called SAE (Standard Average European according to Benjamin Lee Whorf) languages we are accustomed to a certain set of grammatical categories and to a set of their properties one of which is their obligatory aplication. The grammatical categories obviously express a kind of generalized meaning the origin of which is to be looked for in the environmental, social, and cultural reality of a particular linguistic community; however, the original motivation may gradually fade away, become opaque and finally disappear or undergo the process of reinterpretation.
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