CATEGORY OF NOMINAL CLASSES IN INDONESIAN AND ITS REINTERPRETATION

• Authors: Viktor Krupa
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

CLASSIFIERS; SIMPLIFICATION; SOUTHEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 172 - 178
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Viktor Krupa

• Institute of Oriental and African Studies SAS, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• V. Krupa, Ustav orientalistiky SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06SKAAAA00771905