Table of Contents

1. Preface & Acknowledgments; 2. List of abbreviations; 3. 1.Preliminaries; 4. 2. Nominal classification systems: An overview; 5. 3. From Protagoras to the philosophical grammars; 6. 4. From the 'Romantics' to the Neogrammarians; 7. 5. Structuralism; 8. 6. Contemporary studies of gender/noun classes; 9. 7. Contemporary studies of classifiers; 10. 8. Final discussion; 11. References; 12. Index; 13. Index of biographical names; 14. Index of subjects and terms; 15. Language index