Gender and Noun Classification by Éric Mathieu 9780192563200 0192563203

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• ISBN 10: 0192563203
• ISBN 13: 9780192563200
• Author: Éric Mathieu 

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. The book’s contributors draw on data from a wide range of languages, including Amharic, French, Gitksan, Haro, Lithuanian, Japanese, Mi’kmaw, Persian, and Shona. Chapters examine where in the nominal structure gender is able to function as a classifying device, and how in the absence of gender, other functional elements in the nominal spine come to fill that gap. Other chapters focus on how gender participates in grammatical concord and agreement phenomena. The volume also discusses semantic agreement: hybrid agreement sometimes arises due to a distinction that grammars encode between natural gender on the one hand and grammatical gender on the other. 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. The volume will be of interest to theoretical linguists and typologists from advanced undergraduate level upwards.

Table contents:

1: Humans, gods, and demons

2: Partitioning the nominal domain: The convergence of morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics

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

4: Multiple facets of constructional Arabic gender and `functional universalism´ in the DP

5: Limiting gender

6: The double life of gender and its structural consequences: A case study from Standard Italian

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 interactions in Gitksan

11: Plural marking on mass nouns: Evidence from Greek

12: Productivity vs predictability: Evidence for the syntax and semantics of Animate gender in four

13: How to phraseologize nominal number

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