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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 t...
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oapen-20.500.12657-234222024-03-22T19:22:54Z Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity, Volume 2 Di Garbo, Francesca Olsson, Bruno Wälchli, Bernhard Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics 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. Volume two 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. 2020-03-10 03:00:38 2020-04-01T09:14:42Z 2020-04-01T09:14:42Z 2019-10-25 book 1006728 2363-5568 9783961101801 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23422 eng Studies in Diversity Linguistics application/pdf n/a 1006728.pdf Language Science Press 10.5281/zenodo.3446230 104955 10.5281/zenodo.3446230 0bad921f-3055-43b9-a9f1-ea5b2d949173 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783961101801 Berlin 104955 Language Science Press 2018 - 2020 Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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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. Volume two 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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