Gender and Noun Classification by ?ric Mathieu (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Gender and Noun Classification by Éric Mathieu, Myriam Dali, Gita Zareikar This volume explores the many ways by which natural languages categorize nouns into genders or classes. The findings in the volume have significant implications for syntactic theory and theories of interpretation, and contribute to a greater understanding of the interplay between inflection and derivation. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This volume explores the many ways by which natural languages categorize nouns into genders or classes. A noun may belong to a given class because of its logical or symbolic similarities with other nouns, because it shares a similar morphological form with other nouns, or simply through an arbitrary convention. The aim of this book is to establish which functional or lexical categories are responsible for this type of classification, especially along the nominalsyntactic spine. The books contributors draw on data from a wide range of languages, including Amharic, French, Gitksan, Haro, Lithuanian, Japanese, Mikmaw, Persian, and Shona.Chapters examine where in the nominal structure gender is able to function as a classifying device, and how in the absence of gender, other functional elements in the nominal spine come to fill that gap. Other chapters focus on how gender participates in grammatical concord and agreement phenomena. The volume also discusses semantic agreement: hybrid agreement sometimes arises due to a distinction that grammars encode between natural gender on the one hand and grammatical gender on the other.The findings in the volume have significant implications for syntactic theory and theories of interpretation, and contribute to a greater understanding of the interplay between inflection andderivation. The volume will be of interest to theoretical linguists and typologists from advanced undergraduate level upwards. Author Biography Éric Mathieu is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on French (Modern and Old) and the Algonquian language Ojibwe. His work has appeared in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Lingua, and Probus, and he is the co-editor, with Robert Truswell, of Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax (OUP, 2017). MyriamDali is a PhD student at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include the syntax and semantics of number and gender, the structure of the DP, the singulative, and the diachronic evolution of number marking systems. She has recently worked onthe competition between plural forms in Tunisian Arabic. Her work has been published in Lingvisticae Investigationes and she has a book in preparation with John Benjamins. Gita Zareikar is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include the syntax and semantics of bare nominals and number interpretation in general number languages. She focuses on the syntax of noun phrases and more specifically on the evolution of classifiers in non-numeral-classifierlanguages. She has recently been working on telicity and viewpoint aspect and its interaction with number and specificity. Her work has been published in Linguistic Variation and in the conference proceedings ofNELS 46 and CLA 2015. Table of Contents 1: Éric Mathieu: Humans, gods, and demonsPart I. Gender and partition2: Rose-Marie Déchaine: Partitioning the nominal domain: The convergence of morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics3: Paolo Acquaviva: Categorization as noun construction: Gender, number, and entity typesPart II. Locus of gender4: Abdelkader Fassi Fehri: Multiple facets of constructional Arabic Gender and functional universalism in the DP5: Christopher Hammerly: Limiting gender6: Ivona Kuerová: The double life of gender and its structural consequences: A case study from Standard Italian7: Danniel da Silva Carvalho: On gender and agreement in Brazilian Portuguese8: Ruth Kramer: A novel kind of gender syncretism9: Phoevos Panagiotidis: (Grammatical) gender troubles and the gender of pronounsPart III. Morphosemantic noun classification10: Clarissa Forbes: Number, names, and animacy: Nominal classes and plural interactions in Gitksan11: Maria Kouneli: Plural marking on mass nouns: Evidence from Greek12: Conor McDonough Quinn: Productivity vs. predictability: Evidence for the syntax and semantics of Animate gender in four Northeastern-area Algonquian languages13: Solveiga Armoskaite: How to phraseologize nominal numberReferencesIndex Long Description This volume explores the many ways by which natural languages categorize nouns into genders or classes. A noun may belong to a given class because of its logical or symbolic similarities with other nouns, because it shares a similar morphological form with other nouns, or simply through an arbitrary convention. The aim of this book is to establish which functional or lexical categories are responsible for this type of classification, especially along the nominalsyntactic spine. The books contributors draw on data from a wide range of languages, including Amharic, French, Gitksan, Haro, Lithuanian, Japanese, Mikmaw, Persian, and Shona. Chapters examine where in the nominal structure gender is able to function as a classifying device, and how in the absence of gender, other functional elements in the nominal spine come to fill that gap. Other chapters focus on how gender participates in grammatical concord and agreement phenomena. The volume also discusses semanticagreement: hybrid agreement sometimes arises due to a distinction that grammars encode between natural gender on the one hand and grammatical gender on the other. The findings in the volume have significant implications for syntactic theory and theories of interpretation, and contribute to a greaterunderstanding of the interplay between inflection and derivation. The volume will be of interest to theoretical linguists and typologists from advanced undergraduate level upwards. Feature Draws on data from a wide range of typologically diverse languagesCombines syntactic, semantic, morphological, and pragmatic approaches to gender and noun classificationOffers both theoretical analyses and typological exploration of gender-related phenomena Details ISBN0198828101 Language English Year 2018 ISBN-10 0198828101 ISBN-13 9780198828105 Format Hardcover Publisher Oxford University Press Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Éric Mathieu Position PhD student, Deparment of Linguistics DEWEY 415.5 Affiliation PhD student, Deparment of Linguistics, University of Ottawa Publication Date 2018-11-19 UK Release Date 2018-11-19 AU Release Date 2018-11-19 NZ Release Date 2018-11-19 Pages 332 Author Gita Zareikar Series Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics Alternative 9780198828112 Series Number 71 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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