Grammatical Gender in Maltese / / George Farrugia.

Is grammatical gender merely stored as a syntactic property of nouns, or is it computed according to a noun’s semantic, morphological and phonological properties every time it is required?In many languages, gender appears to resist systematic treatment and can even cause problems for non-native lear...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Studia Typologica [STTYP] : Beihefte / Supplements STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals , 23
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVII, 301 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. What is grammatical gender?
  • 3. Nominal classification
  • 4. Grammatical gender in Maltese according to descriptive grammars and dictionaries
  • 5. Grammatical gender in Maltese according to native speakers – the form of the noun
  • 6. The conceptual underpinnings of gender assignment
  • 7. Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendix I
  • Appendix II
  • Glossary
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Languages
  • Index of Subjects