Non Canonical Gender Systems

Author : Sebastian Fedden,Jenny Audring,Greville G. Corbett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192514783

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Non-Canonical Gender Systems by Sebastian Fedden,Jenny Audring,Greville G. Corbett Pdf

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,Jenny Audring,Greville G. Corbett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198795438

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Non-canonical Gender Systems by Sebastian Fedden,Jenny Audring,Greville G. Corbett Pdf

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 : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004532892

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The Tocharian Gender System by Alessandro Del Tomba Pdf

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 : Baerman Matthew Baerman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474446037

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Morphological Perspectives by Baerman Matthew Baerman Pdf

In a field still dominated by syntactic perspectives, it is easy to overlook the words that are the irreducible building blocks of language. 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. With a team of authors that run the typological gamut of languages, this book examines these questions from multiple perspectives, both the canonical and the non-canonical. By taking these questions seriously, and letting loose a full battery of analytical techniques, the following chapters not only celebrate the pioneering work of Greville G. Corbett but present new thinking on traditional approaches, including the paradigm, deponency and morphological features.

Author : Artemis Alexiadou,Terje Lohndal
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9782889450121

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The Grammar of Multilingualism by Artemis Alexiadou,Terje Lohndal Pdf

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 : Jenny Audring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Dutch language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132630927

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Reinventing Pronoun Gender by Jenny Audring Pdf

Author : Dunstan Brown,Marina Chumakina,Greville G. Corbett
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191643521

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Canonical Morphology and Syntax by Dunstan Brown,Marina Chumakina,Greville G. Corbett Pdf

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 : Greville G. Corbett
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110307337

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The Expression of Gender by Greville G. Corbett Pdf

Gender is a fascinating category, which has grown steadily in importance across the humanities and social sciences. The book centres on the core of the category within language. Each of the seven contributions provides an independent account of a key part of the topic, ranging from gender and sex, gender and culture, to typology, dialect variation and psycholinguistics. The authors pay attention to a broad range of languages, including English, Chukchi, Konso and Mohawk.

Author : Nicola Grandi
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748681778

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Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology by Nicola Grandi Pdf

Reviews and debates the latest theoretical approaches to evaluative morphology

Author : Aren Z. Aizura
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478002642

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Mobile Subjects by Aren Z. Aizura Pdf

The first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassignment surgery in 1952. Jorgensen became famous during the ascent of postwar dreams about the possibilities for technology to transform humanity and the world. In Mobile Subjects Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender narratives within global health and tourism economies from 1952 to the present. Drawing on an archive of trans memoirs and documentaries as well as ethnographic fieldwork with trans people obtaining gender reassignment surgery in Thailand, Aizura maps the uneven use of medical protocols to show how national and regional health care systems and labor economies contribute to and limit transnational mobility. Aizura positions transgender travel as a form of biomedical tourism, examining how understandings of race, gender, and aesthetics shape global cosmetic surgery cultures and how economic and racially stratified marketing and care work create the ideal transgender subject as an implicitly white, global citizen. In so doing, he shows how understandings of travel and mobility depend on the historical architectures of colonialism and contemporary patterns of global consumption and labor.

Author : Kristin Luker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674265493

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Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences by Kristin Luker Pdf

“You might think that dancing doesn’t have a lot to do with social research, and doing social research is probably why you picked this book up in the first place. But trust me. Salsa dancing is a practice as well as a metaphor for a kind of research that will make your life easier and better.” Savvy, witty, and sensible, this unique book is both a handbook for defining and completing a research project, and an astute introduction to the neglected history and changeable philosophy of modern social science. In this volume, Kristin Luker guides novice researchers in: knowing the difference between an area of interest and a research topic; defining the relevant parts of a potentially infinite research literature; mastering sampling, operationalization, and generalization; understanding which research methods best answer your questions; beating writer’s block. Most important, she shows how friendships, non-academic interests, and even salsa dancing can make for a better researcher. “You know about setting the kitchen timer and writing for only an hour, or only 15 minutes if you are feeling particularly anxious. I wrote a fairly large part of this book feeling exactly like that. If I can write an entire book 15 minutes at a time, so can you.”

Author : Ruth Singer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501501203

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The Dynamics of Nominal Classification by Ruth Singer Pdf

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.

Author : Jenny Audring,Francesca Masini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199668984

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The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory by Jenny Audring,Francesca Masini Pdf

Morphology, the science of words, is a complex theoretical landscape, where a multitude of frameworks, each with their own tenets and formalism, compete for the explanation of linguistic facts. The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory is a comprehensive guide through this jungle of morphological theories. It provides a rich and up-to-date overview of theoretical frameworks, from Structuralism to Optimality Theory and from Minimalism to Construction Morphology...

Author : Gudrun Miehe,Kerstin Winkelmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Gur languages
ISBN : UOM:39015079239599

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Noun Class Systems in Gur Languages: Southwestern Gur languages (without Gurunsi) by Gudrun Miehe,Kerstin Winkelmann Pdf

Author : Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bußmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027297662

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Gender Across Languages by Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bußmann Pdf

This is the second of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed for each language are the following: What are the structural properties of the language that have an impact on the relations between language and gender? What are the consequences for areas such as agreement, pronominalisation and word-formation? How is specification of and abstraction from (referential) gender achieved in a language? Is empirical evidence available for the assumption that masculine/male expressions are interpreted as generics? Can tendencies of variation and change be observed, and have alternatives been proposed for a more equal linguistic treatment of women and men? This volume (and the previous two volumes) will provide the much-needed basis for explicitly comparative analyses of gender across languages. All chapters are original contributions and follow a common general outline developed by the editors. The book contains rich bibliographical and indexical material.Languages of Volume 2: Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh.