37.3349, Books: Grammatical Gender in Old Occitan: Wiedner (2026)

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Date: 15-Oct-2026
From: Maren Köpp [koepp at narr.de]
Subject: Grammatical Gender in Old Occitan: Wiedner (2026)


Title: Grammatical Gender in Old Occitan
Subtitle: A Variationist Corpus-based Approach
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG
           http://www.narr.de/

Author(s): Marinus Wiedner

Hardback ISBN:  9783381165117 Price: Europe EURO 88.00
Hardback ISBN:  9783381165117 Price: Europe EURO 90.70

Abstract:

This study treats variation in grammatical gender in Old Occitan. By
integrating corpus-linguistic, typological, and sociolinguistic
methods, the research succeeds in tracing the dynamics of
gender-systems in usage. For this sake, a corpus was created based on
17 manuscripts from the Languedoc and Provence, written in the 13th
and 14th centuries. This enables the author to grasp the variation
present in medieval languages and avoids biases from the normalisation
of editions. With this approach, the investigation of gender variation
is based on a solid empirical foundation and thus demonstrates the
kinds of new insights that become attainable when linguistic data are
approached from a historically informed, discourse-tradition-aware,
text-pragmatic, and norm-historical perspective.
Open Access: https://doi.org/10.24053/9783381165124

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)



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