Gender in Grammar and Cognition
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Gender in Grammar and Cognition

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Year
2011
ISBN
9783110802603
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Gender: New light on an old category
  3. An introduction
  4. Part 1: Approaches to gender
  5. Gender classification and the inflectional system of German nouns
  6. Gender in North Germanic: A diasystematic and functional approach
  7. Default genders
  8. Animacy and the notion of semantic gender
  9. Gender assignment revisited
  10. Proper names and gender in Swedish
  11. Reorganization of a gender system: The Central Italian neuters
  12. Gender in Old High German
  13. Classifiers versus genders and noun classes: A case study in Vietnamese
  14. Gender in Teop (Bougainville, Papua New Guinea)
  15. Gender and number in acquisitioa
  16. Verbal classification and number: A case study in Navajo (Athapaskan/Na-Dene)
  17. Nominal abstracts and gender in Modern German: A “quantitative” approach towards the function of gender
  18. On the function of gender
  19. German gender in children’s second language acquisition
  20. Part 2: Manifestations of gender
  21. How many gender categories are there in Swedish?
  22. Gender categories in early English grammars: Their message to the modern grammarian
  23. Elementary gender distinctions
  24. Grammatical gender and its development in Classical Arabic
  25. Gender in French: A diachronic perspective
  26. On the phonology of gender in Modern German
  27. Noun classification in African languages
  28. Grammatical gender from east to west
  29. Inflectional classes, morphological restructuring, and the dissolution of Old English grammatical gender
  30. Norm versus use: On gender in Polish
  31. Use and misuse of gender in Czech
  32. On gender assignment in Russian
  33. The changing system of grammatical gender in the Swedish dialects of Nyland, Finland
  34. Name index
  35. Language index
  36. Subject index