Greville G. Corbett

Gender

Herausgeber: Anderson, S. R.; Bresnan, J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

No other textbook surveys gender across this range of languages. Gender will be invaluable both for class use and as a reference resource for students and researchers in linguistics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 775g
• ISBN-13: 9780521329392
• ISBN-10: 0521329396
• Artikelnr.: 21799616

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Gender assignment I: semantic systems
3. Gender assignment II: formal systems
4. The psycholinguistic status of gender assignment
5. Gender agreement
6. Establishing the number of genders
7. Target genders: syncretism and enforced gender forms
8. Hybrid nouns and the agreement hierarchy
9. Gender resolution rules
10. Generalisations and prospects
References
Author index
Language index
Subject index.