GenderCambridge University Press, 26 abr 1991 - 363 páginas Gender is a fascinating category, central and pervasive in some languages and totally absent in others. In this new, overall account of gender systems, over 200 languages are discussed, from English and Russian to Archi and Chichewa. More detailed analysis of individual languages provides clear illustrations of specific types of systems. Gender distinction is often based on sex; sometimes this is only one criterion and the gender of nouns depends on other factors (thus "house" is masculine in Russian, feminine in French and neuter in Tamil). On occasion there are equivalent distinctions such as human/non-human, animate/inanimate, where sex is irrelevant. |
Índice
SEMANTIC SYSTEMS 78 | 7 |
FORMAL SYSTEMS | 33 |
THE PSYCHOLINGUISTIC STATUS OF GENDER ASSIGNMENT | 70 |
GENDER AGREEMENT | 105 |
SYNCRETISM AND ENFORCED GENDER | 189 |
HYBRID NOUNS AND THE AGREEMENT HIERARCHY | 225 |
GENDER RESOLUTION RULES | 261 |
GENERALIZATIONS AND PROSPECTS | 307 |
| 324 | |
Author index | 352 |
| 361 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
adjectives agreement classes agreement forms Agreement Hierarchy agreement in gender agreement markers agreement targets analysis anaphoric animacy animate Archi assignment system attributive modifiers Bantu languages borrowings Chichewa conjoined consistent agreement pattern controller genders Corbett declension declensional type dialect discussed distinction Dravidian languages Dyirbal English evidence example factors female humans feminine gender French gender agreement gender assignment gender resolution gender system German given grammatical grammatical gender hybrid nouns inanimate involved Khinalug Kru languages lexical linguistic loanwords male humans masculine masculine and feminine masculine personal meaning morphological class neuter neutral agreement non-human normally noun classes noun phrase nouns denoting females nouns denoting humans number of genders number of nouns number resolution Ojibwa personal pronoun phonological predicate prefix Qafar reference resolution rules Russian semantic agreement semantic rules semantically justified Serbo-Croat similar Singular Plural speakers subgenders Swahili syncretism Tamil target gender forms three genders verb vrač