Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Transcription and Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 T H R E E F R U I T B A N A N A The Canonical Classifier Phoronym -- 2 A L O T O F D O G The Pseudopartitive Construction -- 3 A P O D O F W H A L E S The Group Classifier -- 4 T H E U N U S U A L S U S P E C T S Classifier Languages and the Repeater -- 5 A D D I N G A P P L E S A N D O R A N G E S Functional Categories and Taxonomy -- 6 Y O U R H O N O R A B L E T E A Classifying Qualifier Terms -- 7 W O L F P A C K S & B U S I N E S S W O M E N Class Terms and Gender -- 8 A B E V Y O F B E A U T I E S Phoronyms and Cognition -- A P P E N D I X A Phoronym Pretenders -- A P P E N D I X B The Mandarin Plural Suffix -- A P P E N D I X C The Pseudopartitive in English Syntax -- A P P E N D I X D Typology and Classifiers -- A P P E N D I X E Terminology -- References -- Index.