Gender in Grammar and Cognition

I: Approaches to Gender. II: Manifestations of Gender

Barbara Unterbeck, Matti Rissanen, Terttu Nevalainen, Mirja Saari

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9783110162417
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110802603
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Preface
• Gender: New light on an old category
• An introduction
• Part 1: Approaches to gender
• Gender classification and the inflectional system of German nouns
• Gender in North Germanic: A diasystematic and functional approach
• Default genders
• Animacy and the notion of semantic gender
• Gender assignment revisited
• Proper names and gender in Swedish
• Reorganization of a gender system: The Central Italian neuters
• Gender in Old High German
• Classifiers versus genders and noun classes: A case study in Vietnamese
• Gender in Teop (Bougainville, Papua New Guinea)
• Gender and number in acquisitioa
• Verbal classification and number: A case study in Navajo (Athapaskan/Na-Dene)
• Nominal abstracts and gender in Modern German: A “quantitative” approach towards the function of gender
• On the function of gender
• German gender in children’s second language acquisition
• Part 2: Manifestations of gender
• How many gender categories are there in Swedish?
• Gender categories in early English grammars: Their message to the modern grammarian
• Elementary gender distinctions
• Grammatical gender and its development in Classical Arabic
• Gender in French: A diachronic perspective
• On the phonology of gender in Modern German
• Noun classification in African languages
• Grammatical gender from east to west
• Inflectional classes, morphological restructuring, and the dissolution of Old English grammatical gender
• Norm versus use: On gender in Polish
• Use and misuse of gender in Czech
• On gender assignment in Russian
• The changing system of grammatical gender in the Swedish dialects of Nyland, Finland
• Name index
• Language index
• Subject index