[PDF] Non Canonical Gender Systems eBook

Author : Sebastian Fedden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192514784

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This book explores the boundaries of the category of gender and their theoretical significance within the framework of Canonical Typology. Grammatical gender is a famously puzzling category: although it has been widely explored from a typological perspective, studies are constantly identifying exciting and unexpected patterns in gender systems, many of which cannot be easily classified or straightforwardly analysed. Some of these patterns stretch or even threaten to cross the largely unexplored outer boundaries of the category. In the canonical approach, morphosyntactic features like gender are established in terms of a canonical ideal: the clearest instance of the phenomenon. The canonical ideal is a clustering of properties that serves as a baseline to measure the actual examples observed. In this volume, international experts use this approach to analyse a range of gender systems that diverge from the canonical ideal, and to determine to what extent each component property of these systems can be considered canonical. Chapters explore a wide range of typologically diverse languages from all over the world, from South America to Melanesia, and from Central Italy to Northern Australia. The book will be of interest to all linguists working in the field of typology, from graduate level upwards, as well as to morphologists and syntacticians of all theoretical stripes who have an interest in grammatical gender.

Author : Sebastian Fedden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198795432

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This book explores the boundaries of the category of gender and their theoretical significance within the framework of Canonical Typology. International experts analyse a variety of gender systems from a range of typologically diverse languages from across the world, from South America to Melanesia, and from Central Italy to Northern Australia.

Author : Alessandro Del Tomba
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004532897

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As one of the most debated categories of Tocharian nominal morphology, grammatical gender is in this book investigated from the point of view of Indo-European comparative reconstruction, by applying the methods of historical linguistics, Tocharian philology, and typological linguistics.

Author : Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 2016-10-31
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ISBN : 2889450120

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This volume investigates the nature of grammatical representations in speakers who master multiple languages. Since the early days of modern formal approaches to grammar, most work has been based on the language of monolingual humans. Less work has been conducted based on data from speakers who possess more than one language. Although important insights have been gained from a monolingual focus, there is every reason to believe that bi- and multilingual data can inform linguistic theory. A lot of ongoing work demonstrates that this is indeed the case, and the current volume contributes to this growing literature. Thus, the research topic addresses a number of questions relating to grammatical structures in multilingual speakers as well as the methodological issues that arise in the context of studying such speakers. A better understanding of the grammatical sides of multilingualism is crucial for understanding the human language capacity and in turn for offering better advice to the public concerning issues of language choice for multilingual children and adults, education, and language deficits in multilingual individuals.

Author : Matthew Baerman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1474446027

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Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigmatic extensions, and their role in expressing and manipulating syntactic configurations.

Author : Anna Kibort
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0199577749

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This book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features - gender, number, case, person, etc. - and establishes new bases for their use in the study and understanding of language. It brings together perspectives from phonology to formal syntax and semantics, expounding features in typology, computer applications, and logic.

Author : Dunstan Brown
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191643521

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This is the first book to present Canonical Typology, a framework for comparing constructions and categories across languages. The canonical method takes the criteria used to define particular categories or phenomena (eg negation, finiteness, possession) to create a multidimensional space in which language-specific instances can be placed. In this way, the issue of fit becomes a matter of greater or lesser proximity to a canonical ideal. Drawing on the expertise of world class scholars in the field, the book addresses the issue of cross-linguistic comparability, illustrates the range of areas - from morphosyntactic features to reported speech - to which linguists are currently applying this methodology, and explores to what degree the approach succeeds in discovering the elusive canon of linguistic phenomena.

Author : Ruth Singer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1501501208

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The use of grammatical gender in the Australian language Mawng calls into question prevailing ideas about the functions of nominal classification systems. Mawng’s gender system has a strong semantic basis and plays an important role in the construction of meaning in discourse. Gender agreement in verbs is frequently lexicalized, creating idioms called lexicalised agreement verbs that are structurally similar to noun-verb idioms. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in nominal classification or cross-linguistic approaches to idioms.