Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity. Volume I, General issues and specific studies
The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters (plus an introductory chapter in each volume) on...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Language Science Press
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| Collection: | Studies in diversity linguistics
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| Accès en ligne: | https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/223 Accès Université d'Orléans |
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Description d'après la consultation, 2020-04-28 Titre provenant de l'écran-titre Language Science Press (hors Licence nationale) |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity, Volume 1, General issues and specific studies, edited by Francesca Di Garbo, Bruno Olsson, Bernhard Wälchli, 2019, Berlin, Germany, Language Science Press, 1 volume (vi-340 pages), Studies in diversity linguistics, 978-3-96110-179-5 |
| Résumé: | The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters (plus an introductory chapter in each volume) on the topic of grammatical gender seen through the prism of linguistic complexity. The contributions discuss what counts as complex and/or simple in grammatical gender systems and whether the distribution of gender systems across the world s languages relates to the language ecology and social history of speech communities. Contributors demonstrate how the complexity of gender systems can be studied synchronically, both in individual languages and over large cross-linguistic samples, and diachronically, by exploring how gender systems change over time. In addition to three chapters on the theoretical foundations of gender complexity, volume one contain six chapters on grammatical gender and complexity in individual languages and language families of Africa, New Guinea, and South Asia. This volume is complemented by volume II: World-wide comparative studies, which consists of three chapters providing diachronic and typological case studies, followed by a final chapter discussing old and new theoretical and empirical challenges in the study of the dynamics of gender complexity. |
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| Description: | Description d'après la consultation, 2020-04-28 Titre provenant de l'écran-titre Language Science Press (hors Licence nationale) |
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| Bibliographie: | Bibliographie en fin de chapitre. Index |
| ISBN: | 9783961101788 |
| Accès: | Ressource intégralement en libre accès |