Western Armenian classifiers

Western Armenian numerals combine directly with bare nouns (yergu dəgha vaze-ts 'two boys ran') as well as with plural nouns, so its classifiers are non-obligatory and there is no inventory to record; plural nouns are incompatible with classifiers. The numeral-classifier locus is retained so that cross-language consumers can classify the language, although with no obligatory classifier the language arguably has no classifier system in Aikhenvald's sense.

References

• [bale-khanjian-2014], (10) and fn. 3
• [bale-khanjian-2008]

Typological parameters

def Armenian.classifierLocus : Classifier.Scope

Classifiers, when present, occur in the numeral phrase.

Equations

• Armenian.classifierLocus = Classifier.Scope.numeralNP

def Armenian.classifierConstituent : Classifier.Constituent

Equations

• Armenian.classifierConstituent = Classifier.Constituent.headNoun

@[reducible, inline]

abbrev Armenian.classifierKind : Option Classifier.Kind

The kind of device, read off its locus and the constituent it characterizes.

Equations

• Armenian.classifierKind = Classifier.kind Armenian.classifierLocus Armenian.classifierConstituent

def Armenian.classifierScopes : List Classifier.Scope

Every environment the device operates in.

Equations

• Armenian.classifierScopes = [Classifier.Scope.numeralNP]

def Armenian.classifierAssignment : Classifier.Assignment

Classifier choice is semantic.

Equations

• Armenian.classifierAssignment = Classifier.Assignment.semantic

def Armenian.classifierRealizations : List Classifier.Realization

Free morphemes.

Equations

• Armenian.classifierRealizations = [Classifier.Realization.freeForm]

def Armenian.classifierAgreement : Bool

Equations

• Armenian.classifierAgreement = false

def Armenian.classifierObligatory : Bool

Numerals combine with bare nouns.

Equations

• Armenian.classifierObligatory = false

def Armenian.classifierDefault : Bool

Equations

• Armenian.classifierDefault = false

def Armenian.classifierSemantics : List Classifier.Parameter

Equations

• Armenian.classifierSemantics = []

def Armenian.obligatoryNumber : Bool

Equations

• Armenian.obligatoryNumber = false

def Armenian.pluralClassifierCooccur : Bool

Whether classifiers and plural marking co-occur.

Equations

• Armenian.pluralClassifierCooccur = false