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Gender from Latin to Romance - History, Geography, Typology (Hardcover)
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Gender from Latin to Romance - History, Geography, Typology (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics, 27
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This book explores grammatical gender in the Romance languages and
dialects and its evolution from Latin. Michele Loporcaro
investigates the significant diversity found in the Romance
varieties in this regard; he draws on data from the Middle Ages to
the present from all the Romance languages and dialects, discussing
examples from Romanian to Portuguese and crucially also focusing on
less widely-studied varieties such as Sursilvan, Neapolitan, and
Asturian. The investigation first reveals that several varieties
display more complex systems than the binary masculine/feminine
contrast familiar from modern French or Italian. Moreover, it
emerges that traditional accounts, whereby neuter gender was lost
in the spoken Latin of the late Empire, cannot be correct: instead,
the neuter gender underwent a range of different transformations
from Late Latin onwards, which are responsible for the different
systems that can be observed today across the Romance languages.
The volume provides a detailed description of many of these
systems, which in turns reveals a wealth of fascinating data, such
as varieties where 'husbands' are feminine and others where 'wives'
are masculine; dialects in which nouns overtly mark gender, but
only in certain syntactic contexts; and one Romance variety
(Asturian) in which it appears that grammatical gender has split
into two concurrent systems. The volume will appeal to linguists
from a range of backgrounds, including Romance linguistics,
historical linguistics, typology, and morphosyntax, and is also of
relevance to those working in sociology, gender studies, and
psychology.
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