33.497, Books: Gender mismatches in partitive constructions in French and German: Westveer

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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 11:16:47
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Gender mismatches in partitive constructions in French and German: Westveer

 


Title: Gender mismatches in partitive constructions in French and German 
Subtitle: How society shapes language 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/gender-mismatches-in-partitive-constructions-in-french-and-german-how-society-shapes-language 


Author: Thom Westveer

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933851 Pages: 297 Price: Europe EURO 35


Abstract:

Partitive constructions involving human referents (e.g. one of the students)
may give rise to gender agreement mismatches between set and subset in some
languages. Native speakers have intuitions about whether such mismatches are
acceptable or not. Gender mismatches in partitive constructions have not
received much attention in the literature yet, but are particularly
interesting in the light of the ongoing discussions on gender equal language,
which challenge the existing gender systems in many languages. This
dissertation investigates which factors influence the acceptance of gender
mismatches by speakers of French and German and discusses those factors in the
light of the ongoing discussions on gender equal language. Furthermore, it
proposes a novel theoretical explanation for the observed facts within the
framework of Generative Grammar. As such, this dissertation does not only give
insight into an understudied phenomenon, gender agreement in partitive
constructions, but also contributes to our understanding of how social factors
may influence language and eventually could cause language change.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): French (fra)
                     German (deu)


Written In: English  (eng)

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