Gender and Noun Classification 1st Edition Éric Mathieu (Editor)

Gender and Noun Classification 1st Edition Éric Mathieu (Editor) – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198828112,019882811X, 9780192563200, 0192563203

Product details:
• ISBN 10: 0192563203
• ISBN 13: 9780192563200
• Author: Éric Mathieu (editor), Myriam Dali (editor), Gita Zareikar (editor)

This volume explores the many ways by which natural languages categorize nouns into genders or classes. A noun may belong to a given class because of its logical or symbolic similarities with other nouns, because it shares a similar morphological form with other nouns, or simply through an arbitrary convention. The aim of this book is to establish which functional or lexical categories are responsible for this type of classification, especially along the nominal syntactic spine.

Table contents:

1: Humans, gods, and demons

2: Partitioning the nominal domain: The convergence of morphology

3: Categorization as noun construction: Gender, number, and entity

4: Multiple facets of constructional Arabic gender and `functional uni

5: Limiting gender

6: The double life of gender and its structural consequences: A cas

7: On gender agreement in Brazilian Portuguese

8: A novel kind of gender syncretism

9: (Grammatical) gender troubles and the gender of pronouns

10: Number, names, and animacy: Nominal classes and plural interacti…

11: Plural marking on mass nouns: Evidence from Greek

12: Productivity vs predictability: Evidence for the syntax and sema

13: How to phraseologize nominal number

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