Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity I

Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity I
Author :
Publisher : Language Science Press
Total Pages : 350
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783961101788
ISBN-13 : 3961101787
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity I by : Francesca Di Garbo

Download or read book Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity I written by Francesca Di Garbo and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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, 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 contains 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 two, 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.


Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity I Related Books

Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity I
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Francesca Di Garbo
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Language Science Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and develop
Grammatical Gender
Language: en
Pages: 116
Authors: Muhammad Hasan Ibrahim
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-06 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Grammatical Gender in English
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Charles Jones
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-03 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

First published in 1988, this book explores the grammatical loss of gender in English. It demonstrates that from the end of the Old English period, there was a
Grammatical Gender in Maltese
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: George Farrugia
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-10 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Is grammatical gender merely stored as a syntactic property of nouns, or is it computed according to a noun’s semantic, morphological and phonological propert
Fossilized Second Language Grammars
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Florencia Franceschina
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This monograph is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the mechanisms and causes of successful and unsuccessful adult second language acquisition. Cou