Gender in Grammar and Cognition : : I: Approaches to Gender. II: Manifestations of Gender / / ed. by Barbara Unterbeck, Matti Rissanen, Mirja Saari, Terttu Nevalainen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Andersson, Erik,; Bittner, Dagmar,; Braunmüller, Kurt,; Corbett, Greville G.,; Curzan, Anne,; Dahl, Östen,; Doleschal, Ursula,; Fraser, Norman M.,; Fraurud, Kari,; Haase, Martin,; Hickey, Raymond,; Hurskainen, Arvi,; Hämeen-Anttila, Jaakko,; Härmä, Juhani,; Janhunen, Juha,; Kastovsky, Dieter,; Kryk-Kastovsky, Barbara,; Lehečková, Helena,; Leiss, Elisabeth,; Löbel, Elisabeth,; Mosel, Ulrike,; Müller, Natascha,; Nikunlassi, Ahti,; Sandström, Caroline,; Spriggs, Ruth,; Unterbeck, Barbara,; Vogel, Petra Maria,; Weber, Doris,; Wegener, Heide,
• HerausgeberIn: Nevalainen, Terttu,; Rissanen, Matti,; Saari, Mirja,; Unterbeck, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 124
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (836 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

• I-IV
• Contents
• Preface
• Gender: New light on an old category. An introduction
• Part 1: Approaches to gender
• Gender classification and the inflectional system of German nouns
• Gender in North Germanic: A diasystematic and functional approach
• Default genders
• Animacy and the notion of semantic gender
• Gender assignment revisited
• Proper names and gender in Swedish
• Reorganization of a gender system: The Central Italian neuters
• Gender in Old High German
• Classifiers versus genders and noun classes: A case study in Vietnamese
• Gender in Teop (Bougainville, Papua New Guinea)
• Gender and number in acquisition
• Verbal classification and number: A case study in Navajo (Athapaskan/Na-Dene)
• Nominal abstracts and gender in Modern German: A "quantitative" approach towards the function of gender
• On the function of gender
• German gender in children's second language acquisition
• Part 2: Manifestations of gender
• How many gender categories are there in Swedish?
• Gender categories in early English grammars: Their message to the modern grammarian
• Elementary gender distinctions
• Grammatical gender and its development in Classical Arabic
• Gender in French: A diachronic perspective
• On the phonology of gender in Modern German
• Noun classification in African languages
• Grammatical gender from east to west
• Inflectional classes, morphological restructuring, and the dissolution of Old English grammatical gender
• Norm versus use: On gender in Polish
• Use and misuse of gender in Czech
• On gender assignment in Russian
• The changing system of grammatical gender in the Swedish dialects of Nyland, Finland
• Name index
• Language index
• Subject index