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Non-Canonical Gender Systems (Hardcover)
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Non-Canonical Gender Systems (Hardcover)
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This book explores the boundaries of the category of gender and
their theoretical significance within the framework of Canonical
Typology. Grammatical gender is a famously puzzling category:
although it has been widely explored from a typological
perspective, studies are constantly identifying exciting and
unexpected patterns in gender systems, many of which cannot be
easily classified or straightforwardly analysed. Some of these
patterns stretch or even threaten to cross the largely unexplored
outer boundaries of the category. In the canonical approach,
morphosyntactic features like gender are established in terms of a
canonical ideal: the clearest instance of the phenomenon. The
canonical ideal is a clustering of properties that serves as a
baseline to measure the actual examples observed. In this volume,
international experts use this approach to analyse a range of
gender systems that diverge from the canonical ideal, and to
determine to what extent each component property of these systems
can be considered canonical. Chapters explore a wide range of
typologically diverse languages from all over the world, from South
America to Melanesia, and from Central Italy to Northern Australia.
The book will be of interest to all linguists working in the field
of typology, from graduate level upwards, as well as to
morphologists and syntacticians of all theoretical stripes who have
an interest in grammatical gender.
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