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The Morphosyntax of Gender (Hardcover)
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The Morphosyntax of Gender (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 58
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This book presents a new cross-linguistic analysis of gender and
its effects on morphosyntax. It addresses questions including the
syntactic location of gender features; the role of natural gender;
and the relationship between syntactic gender features and the
morphological realization of gender. Ruth Kramer argues that gender
features are syntactically located on the n head ('little n'),
which serves to nominalize category-neutral roots. Those gender
features are either interpretable, as in the case of natural
gender, or uninterpretable, like the gender of an inanimate noun in
Spanish. Adopting Distributed Morphology, the book lays out how the
gender features on n map onto the gender features relevant for
morphological exponence. The analysis is supported by an in-depth
case study of Amharic, which poses challenges for previous gender
analyses and provides clear support for gender on n. The proposals
generate a typology of two- and three-gender systems, with the
various types illustrated using data from a genetically diverse set
of languages. Finally, further evidence for gender being on n is
provided from case studies of Somali and Romanian, as well as from
the relationship between gender and other linguistic phenomena
including derived nouns and declension class. Overall, the book
provides one of the first large-scale,
cross-linguistically-oriented, theoretical approaches to the
morphosyntax of gender.
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