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Studies on the collective and feminine in Indo-European from a diachronic and typological perspective / edited by Sergio Neri and Roland Schuhmann.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Neri, Sergio, 1970-
Schuhmann, Roland, 1972-
Series:
Brill's studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics ; v. 11.
Brill's studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics, 1875-6328 ; v. 11
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Indo-European languages--Gender.
Indo-European languages.
Proto-Indo-European language--Gender.
Proto-Indo-European language.
Indo-European languages--Grammar, Comparative.
Typology (Linguistics).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (390 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This volume contains thirteen contributions on the origin of the feminine gender and its relation to the collective in the Indo-European parent language. The Indo-European daughter languages have got mostly a three-gender system, however the early attested Anatolian languages owned only two genders. In this respect, it is debatable whether the feminine gender is primary or arose secondarily from another morphological category. Due to special morphological and morphosyntactic phenomena it is also questionable whether the neuter plural of the individual languages continues an inflectional category or it was rather grammaticalized from an original word formation category collective. The authors suggest different approaches on the question of the relationship between feminine and collective.
Contents:
Preliminary Material
Introduction / Sergio Neri and Roland Schuhmann
PIE feminine *-eh2 in Tocharian / Hannes A. Fellner
Das andere Wort für ‘Frau’ im Urindogermanischen / Jón Axel Harðarson
The Gender of Abstract Noun Suffixes in the Brittonic Languages / Britta Irslinger
A Tale of Two Suffixes: *‑h2‑, *‑ih2‑, and the Evolution of Feminine Gender in Indo-European / Ronald I. Kim
Voraussetzungen für ein feminines Genus und Implikationen für das Kategoriensystem des frühindogermanischen Nomens / Roland Litscher
Zur Emergenz von ā-Motion und Kongruenz im Indogermanischen / Rosemarie Lühr
Gender and Word Formation: The PIE Gender System in Cross-Linguistic Perspective / Silvia Luraghi
Nominal Agreement in PIE from the Areal and Typological Point of View / Ranko Matasović
PIE *‑eh2 as an “individualizing” Suffix and the Feminine Gender / H. Craig Melchert
Feminine, Abstract, Collective, Neuter Plural: Some Remarks on each (Expanded Handout) / Alan J. Nussbaum
Zum anatolischen und indogermanischen Kollektivum / Norbert Oettinger
Genus—Form und Funktion neu betrachtet / Matthias Passer
Zum Kontrastakzent und Wurzelablaut thematischer Kollektiva des Urindogermanischen / Thomas Steer
Index of Forms.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9789004264953
9004264957
OCLC:
869735760
Publisher Number:
10.1163/9789004264953 DOI

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