30.475, Books: Gender and Noun Classification: Mathieu, Dali, Zareikar (eds.)

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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 22:14:55
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: Gender and Noun Classification: Mathieu, Dali, Zareikar (eds.)

 


Title: Gender and Noun Classification 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gender-and-noun-classification-9780198828112 


Editor: Eric Mathieu
Editor: Myriam Dali
Editor: Gita Zareikar

Paperback: ISBN:  9780198828112 Pages: 336 Price: U.S. $ 45.00


Abstract:

This volume explores the many ways by which natural languages categorize nouns
into genders or classes. A noun may belong to a given class because of its
logical or symbolic similarities with other nouns, because it shares a similar
morphological form with other nouns, or simply through an arbitrary
convention. The aim of this book is to establish which functional or lexical
categories are responsible for this type of classification, especially along
the nominal syntactic spine. 

The book's contributors draw on data from a wide range of languages, including
Amharic, French, Gitksan, Haro, Lithuanian, Japanese, Mi'kmaw, Persian, and
Shona. Chapters examine where in the nominal structure gender is able to
function as a classifying device, and how in the absence of gender, other
functional elements in the nominal spine come to fill that gap. Other chapters
focus on how gender participates in grammatical concord and agreement
phenomena. The volume also discusses semantic agreement: hybrid agreement
sometimes arises due to a distinction that grammars encode between natural
gender on the one hand and grammatical gender on the other. The findings in
the volume have significant implications for syntactic theory and theories of
interpretation, and contribute to a greater understanding of the interplay
between inflection and derivation. The volume will be of interest to
theoretical linguists and typologists from advanced undergraduate level
upwards.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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