Studies on the collective and feminine in Indo-European from a diachronic and typological perspective / / edited by Sergio Neri and Roland Schuhmann.

This volume contains thirteen contributions on the origin of the feminine gender and its relation to the collective in the Indo-European parent language. The Indo-European daughter languages have got mostly a three-gender system, however the early attested Anatolian languages owned only two genders....

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Superior document:Brill's studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics, volume 11
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics ; v. 11.
Physical Description:1 online resource (390 pages).
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • PIE feminine *-eh2 in Tocharian / Hannes A. Fellner
  • Das andere Wort fur 'Frau' im Urindogermanischen / Jon Axel Har©"arson
  • The gender of abstract noun suffixes in the Brittonic languages / Britta Irslinger
  • A tale of two suffixes: *-h2-, *-ih2-, and the evolution of feminine gender in Indo-European / Ronald I. Kim
  • Voraussetzungen fu?r ein feminines Genus und Implikationen fu?r das Kategoriensystem des fru?hindogermanischen Nomens / Roland Litscher
  • Zur emergenz von a-motion und Kongruenz im Indogermanischen / Rosemarie Lu?hr
  • Gender and word formation: the PIE gender system in cross-linguistic perspective / Silvia Luraghi
  • Nominal agreement in PIE from the areal and typological point of view / Ranko Matasovic
  • PIE *-eh2 as an "individualizing" suffix and the feminine gender / H. Craig Melchert
  • Feminine, abstract, collective, neuter plural: some remarks on each / Alan J. Nussbaum
  • Zum anatolischen und indogermanischen Kollektivum / Norbert Oettinger
  • Genus-Form und Funktion neu betrachtet / Matthias Passer
  • Zum Kontrastakzent und Wurzelablaut thematischer Kollektiva des Urindogermanischen / Thomas Steer.