lexical representation

[Ken Nozaki Lacy]

Hellinger, Marlis, and Bussmann, Hadumod (ed), 2001&2002. "Gender Across Languages", vols 1&2, Impact studies in language & society, John Benjamins: Amsterdam

There are a couple studies in these volumes that deal somewhat with those issues, a few quantitatively: Friederike Braun on Turkish for example.

I'm interested in the topic you mentioned, as well, and would love to get a hold of some of those references you mentioned (the ones dating to the 1970s) as well as anything else you come up with.

Cheers
-Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou <pavlidou at lit.auth.gr>
Date: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:14 am
Subject: lexical representation

> Dear All,
>
> Does anybody know of any work done in any language on the quantitative
> distribution of the grammatical gender (e.g., masculine, feminine,
> neuter) of nouns and their semantic content (e.g. concrete/abstract,
> positive or negative when referring to humans, etc.)?
>
> I am aware of the work done in this direction back in the
> seventies, but
> now that dictionaries are available in electronic form, there must
> havebeen more recent work concerning the lexical representation of
> men and
> women that takes advantage of this possibility. I am looking into
> ModernGreek from this perspective (as well), but haven't been able
> to spot
> something similar for other languages.
>
> With thanks in advance for any information that you could provide,
>
> Soula
>
>
>
> --
> Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
> Professor of Linguistics
> Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
> Dept. of Linguistics
> School of Philology
> Faculty of Philosophy
> GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
> tel. ++30-310-997054, fax: ++30-310-997419
>