5.1.2. Bodypart classifiers

An important group of semantic classifiers includes those referring to parts of the body, both human and animal:

cl(B): ‘legs of a person’

cl(|): ‘feet’

cl(1): ‘head’

cl(:): ‘tongue’

cl(j): ‘lips’

cl()): ‘teeth’

cl(v): ‘eyelashes’

cl(o): ‘eyes’

cl(a): ‘eye balls’

cl(y): ‘eye lids’

cl(+): ‘eye lids’

cl(5): ‘breasts’

cl(9): ‘nipples’

cl(B): ‘penis’

cl(y): ‘testicles’

cl(#): ‘vulva’

cl(c): ‘vagina’

cl(p): ‘hair’

cl(d): ‘eyebrows’

cl(l): ‘ears’

cl(>): ‘toes’

cl(y): ‘thin paws’

cl(1): ‘thick paws’

cl(z): ‘frog legs’

cl(|): ‘penguin feet’

cl(y): ‘animal head’

cl(i): ‘beak’

cl(s): ‘fine tongue’                            

  (all examples are recreated from Quer et al., 2005)