Gender and noun classification / edited by Éric Mathieu, Myriam Dali Gita Zareikar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mathieu, Eric, 1967- editor.

Dali, Myriam, editor.

Zareikar, Gita, editor.

Series:

Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 71.

Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Gender.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Noun.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 308 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This volume explores the many ways by which natural languages categorize nouns into genders or classes. The findings in the volume have significant implications for syntactic theory and theories of interpretation, and contribute to a greater understanding of the interplay between inflection and derivation.

Contents:

General preface

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

The contributors

1 Humans, gods, and demons / Éric Mathieu

Part I Gender and partition: 2 Partitioning the nominal domain / Rose-Marie Déchaine

3 Categorization as noun construction / Paolo Acquaviva

Part II Locus of gender: 4 Multiple facets of constructional Arabic gender and ‘functional universalism’ in the DP / Abdelkader Fassi Fehri

5 Limiting gender / Christopher Hammerly

6 The double life of gender and its structural consequences / Ivona KučErová

7 On gender agreement in Brazilian Portuguese / Danniel da Silva Carvalho

8 A novel kind of gender syncretism / Ruth Kramer9 (Grammatical) gender troubles and the gender of pronouns / Phoevos Panagiotidis

Part III Morphosemantic noun classification:10 Number, names, and animacy / Clarissa Forbes

11 Plural marking on mass nouns / Maria Kouneli

12 Productivity vs predictability / Conor Mcdonough Quinn

13 How to phraseologize nominal number / Solveiga Armoskaite

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-186677-6

0-19-256320-3

OCLC:

1048944735