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Non-Canonical Gender Systems (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,978
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Non-Canonical Gender Systems (Hardcover): Sebastian Fedden, Jenny Audring, Greville G. Corbett

Non-Canonical Gender Systems (Hardcover)

Sebastian Fedden, Jenny Audring, Greville G. Corbett

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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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2018
Editors: Sebastian Fedden (Professor of Linguistics) • Jenny Audring (Assistant Professor of German Linguistics) • Greville G. Corbett (Distinguished Professor of Linguistics)
Dimensions: 241 x 164 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-879543-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
LSN: 0-19-879543-2
Barcode: 9780198795438

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