Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), Tariana (2003), and Manambu (2008) in addition to essays on various typological and areal topics. She is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality (OUP, 2018) and co-editor, with R. M. W. Dixon, of The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology (CUP, 2017). Her other major publications with OUP include Imperatives and Commands (2010), Languages of the Amazon (2012), The Art of Grammar (2014), How Gender Shapes the World (2016) and Serial Verbs (2018).Elena I. Mihas has been studying Asheninka and Ashaninka varieties of Kampa Arawak of Peru since 2008, and received her PhD in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Upper Perené Narratives of History, Landscape and Ritual (Nebraska University Press, 2014), A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak) (Mouton, 2015), and Conversational Structures of Alto Perené (Benjamins, 2017), and of multiple papers on the grammatical aspects of Kampa languages. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, A United States Department of Education National Resource Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

• Preface Notes on the contributors Abbreviations 1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Noun categorization devices: A cross-linguistic perspective 2: Elena I. Mihas: Genders and classifiers in Kampa (Arawak) languages of Peru 3: Pilar M. Valenzuela: Classifiers in Shiwilu (Kawapanan): Exploring typologically salient properties 4: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: A view from the North: genders and classifiers in Arawak languages of north-west Amazonia 5: Luca Ciucci and Pier Marco Bertinetto: Possessive classifiers in Zamucoan 6: Katarzyna I. Wojtylak: The elusive verbal classifiers in 'Witoto' 7: Cristina Messineo and Paola Cúneo: Multifunctionality of deictic classifiers in the Toba language (Guaycuruan) 8: Nathan M. White: Classifiers in Hmong 9: Nerida Jarkey and Hiroko Komatsu: Numeral classifiers in Japanese 10: Junwei Bai: Numeral classifiers in Munya, a Tibeto-Burman language Index of authors Index of languages, language families, and linguistic areas Index of subjects

In summary, this volume is highly recommended as the most current summation of what has been learned by researchers into noun-classification systems in recent years. It is an excellent tool for any scholar seeking to solidify their grasp of the grammatical possibilities of languages and for those aiming to document languages in as full and intercomparable a fashion as possible.

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), Tariana (2003), and Manambu (2008) in addition to essays on various typological and areal topics. She is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality (OUP, 2018) and co-editor, with R. M. W. Dixon, of The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology (CUP, 2017). Her other major publications with OUP include Imperatives and Commands (2010), Languages of the Amazon (2012), The Art of Grammar (2014), How Gender Shapes the World (2016) and Serial Verbs (2018).Elena I. Mihas has been studying Asheninka and Ashaninka varieties of Kampa Arawak of Peru since 2008, and received her PhD in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Upper Perené Narratives of History, Landscape and Ritual (Nebraska University Press, 2014), A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak) (Mouton, 2015), and Conversational Structures of Alto Perené (Benjamins, 2017), and of multiple papers on the grammatical aspects of Kampa languages. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, A United States Department of Education National Resource Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

• Preface Notes on the contributors Abbreviations 1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Noun categorization devices: A cross-linguistic perspective 2: Elena I. Mihas: Genders and classifiers in Kampa (Arawak) languages of Peru 3: Pilar M. Valenzuela: Classifiers in Shiwilu (Kawapanan): Exploring typologically salient properties 4: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: A view from the North: genders and classifiers in Arawak languages of north-west Amazonia 5: Luca Ciucci and Pier Marco Bertinetto: Possessive classifiers in Zamucoan 6: Katarzyna I. Wojtylak: The elusive verbal classifiers in 'Witoto' 7: Cristina Messineo and Paola Cúneo: Multifunctionality of deictic classifiers in the Toba language (Guaycuruan) 8: Nathan M. White: Classifiers in Hmong 9: Nerida Jarkey and Hiroko Komatsu: Numeral classifiers in Japanese 10: Junwei Bai: Numeral classifiers in Munya, a Tibeto-Burman language Index of authors Index of languages, language families, and linguistic areas Index of subjects

In summary, this volume is highly recommended as the most current summation of what has been learned by researchers into noun-classification systems in recent years. It is an excellent tool for any scholar seeking to solidify their grasp of the grammatical possibilities of languages and for those aiming to document languages in as full and intercomparable a fashion as possible.

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), Tariana (2003), and Manambu (2008) in addition to essays on various typological and areal topics. She is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality (OUP, 2018) and co-editor, with R. M. W. Dixon, of The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology (CUP, 2017). Her other major publications with OUP include Imperatives and Commands (2010), Languages of the Amazon (2012), The Art of Grammar (2014), How Gender Shapes the World (2016) and Serial Verbs (2018).Elena I. Mihas has been studying Asheninka and Ashaninka varieties of Kampa Arawak of Peru since 2008, and received her PhD in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Upper Perené Narratives of History, Landscape and Ritual (Nebraska University Press, 2014), A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak) (Mouton, 2015), and Conversational Structures of Alto Perené (Benjamins, 2017), and of multiple papers on the grammatical aspects of Kampa languages. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, A United States Department of Education National Resource Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

• Preface Notes on the contributors Abbreviations 1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Noun categorization devices: A cross-linguistic perspective 2: Elena I. Mihas: Genders and classifiers in Kampa (Arawak) languages of Peru 3: Pilar M. Valenzuela: Classifiers in Shiwilu (Kawapanan): Exploring typologically salient properties 4: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: A view from the North: genders and classifiers in Arawak languages of north-west Amazonia 5: Luca Ciucci and Pier Marco Bertinetto: Possessive classifiers in Zamucoan 6: Katarzyna I. Wojtylak: The elusive verbal classifiers in 'Witoto' 7: Cristina Messineo and Paola Cúneo: Multifunctionality of deictic classifiers in the Toba language (Guaycuruan) 8: Nathan M. White: Classifiers in Hmong 9: Nerida Jarkey and Hiroko Komatsu: Numeral classifiers in Japanese 10: Junwei Bai: Numeral classifiers in Munya, a Tibeto-Burman language Index of authors Index of languages, language families, and linguistic areas Index of subjects

In summary, this volume is highly recommended as the most current summation of what has been learned by researchers into noun-classification systems in recent years. It is an excellent tool for any scholar seeking to solidify their grasp of the grammatical possibilities of languages and for those aiming to document languages in as full and intercomparable a fashion as possible.