29.897, Books: Gender from Latin to Romance: Loporcaro

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:40:12
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: Gender from Latin to Romance: Loporcaro

Title: Gender from Latin to Romance 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gender-from-latin-to-romance-9780199656547 

Author: Michele Loporcaro

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199656547 Pages:  Price: ----  

Abstract:

This book explores grammatical gender in the Romance languages and dialects
and its evolution from Latin. Michele Loporcaro investigates the significant
diversity found in the Romance varieties in this regard; he draws on data from
the Middle Ages to the present from all the Romance languages and dialects,
discussing examples from Romanian to Portuguese and crucially also focusing on
less widely-studied varieties such as Sursilvan, Neapolitan, and Asturian. The
investigation first reveals that several varieties display more complex
systems than the binary masculine/feminine contrast familiar from modern
French or Italian. Moreover, it emerges that traditional accounts, whereby
neuter gender was lost in the spoken Latin of the late Empire, cannot be
correct: instead, the neuter gender underwent a range of different
transformations from Late Latin onwards, which are responsible for the
different systems that can be observed today across the Romance languages. The
volume provides a detailed description of many of these systems, which in
turns reveals a wealth of fascinating data, such as varieties where 'husbands'
are feminine and others where 'wives' are masculine; dialects in which nouns
overtly mark gender, but only in certain syntactic contexts; and one Romance
variety (Asturian) in which it appears that grammatical gender has split into
two concurrent systems.

The volume will appeal to linguists from a range of backgrounds, including
Romance linguistics, historical linguistics, typology, and morphosyntax, and
is also of relevance to those working in sociology, gender studies, and
psychology.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Latin (lat)

Language Family(ies): Romance

Written In: English  (eng)

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