29.3538, Books: Grammatical Gender in Maltese: Farrugia

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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:27:44
From: Pablo Dominguez Andersen [pablo.dominguez at degruyter.com]
Subject: Grammatical Gender in Maltese: Farrugia

 


Title: Grammatical Gender in Maltese 
Series Title: Studia Typologica 23  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/505478?format=G 


Author: George Farrugia

Hardback: ISBN:  9783110603941 Pages: 301 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

Is grammatical gender merely stored as a syntactic property of nouns, or is it
computed according to a noun’s semantic, morphological and phonological
properties every time it is required?

In many languages, gender appears to resist systematic treatment and can even
cause problems for non-native learners. Native speakers of these languages
appear to have no difficulty in assigning the correct grammatical gender to
thousands of nouns in their language. Being an offshoot of Arabic, Maltese
inherited a system comprising two gender categories, masculine and feminine.
Numerous nouns were introduced in Maltese through contact with Sicilian and
subsequently with Italian, two languages that also have a
masculine/feminine-based gender system. However, the more recent contact, with
English, seems to have complicated matters.

This work investigates how grammatical gender functions in Maltese, how native
speakers apply different criteria to classify nouns, and how this choice is
reflected in syntactic agreement. It also takes into consideration the wider
psycholinguistic context that influences the choice of category, and provides
valuable data for theories that seek to explain the linguistic categorization
of nouns in various languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Maltese (mlt)


Written In: English  (eng)

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