No language contrasts a ’round’ classifier with a ‘polyhedral’ classifier, unless the latter is the classifier for buildings, or some similar material classifier.
Standardized
No language contrasts a ’round’ classifier with a ‘polyhedral’ classifier, unless the latter is the classifier for buildings, or some similar material classifier.
Keywords
classifier
Domain
syntax, semantics
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
more than 50 classifier languages from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania in Allan 1977
Most languages which don’t use material classifiers for various polyhedral objects locate them in the ’round’ class.