IRONCLAW is a bold new direction in fantasy role-playing games, designed with both the novice and the experienced gamer in mind ... simple enough that one can start playing in only 15 minutes, yet richly developed, clearly presented, and lavishly illustrated. With two dozen races ... over 60 careers than can be mixed and matched without restrictions ... plus rules for making your own races and careers ... plus over four different kinds of magic with more than 150 spells; plus unique powers and abilities, from the primal to the technological. The role you assume is limited only by your imagination.

Almost all languages have some grammatical means for the linguistic categorization of nouns. Well-known systems such as the lexical numeral classifiers of South-East Asia, on the one hand, and the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classes of Indo-European languages, on the other, are the extremes of a contiuum. They can have a similar semantic basis, and one can develop from the other. Classifiers come in different morphological forms; they can be free nouns, clitics, or affixes.

This collection of essays by international academics draws on a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities to examine how far the expectations and forms of genre shape different kinds of autobiography and influence what messages they can convey.