Terme de Glossaire

classifier

The use of a semantic classifier, or determinative, is not obligatory. It has no phonetic value, and in some sense represents the inverse or opposite of the category of the phonogram. Placed at the end of a word, it specifies a semantic field and a conceptual category to which the word is attached. Depending on the classifier the same word could mean two different things.

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