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  • Formaat: Hardback, 332 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 238x164x26 mm, kaal: 666 g
  • Sari: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 71
  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Nov-2018
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0198828101
  • ISBN-13: 9780198828105
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 332 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 238x164x26 mm, kaal: 666 g
  • Sari: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 71
  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Nov-2018
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0198828101
  • ISBN-13: 9780198828105
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This volume explores the many ways by which natural languages categorize nouns into genders or classes. A noun may belong to a given class because of its logical or symbolic similarities with other nouns, because it shares a similar morphological form with other nouns, or simply through an arbitrary convention. The aim of this book is to establish which functional or lexical categories are responsible for this type of classification, especially along the nominal syntactic spine.

The book's contributors draw on data from a wide range of languages, including Amharic, French, Gitksan, Haro, Lithuanian, Japanese, Mi'kmaw, Persian, and Shona. Chapters examine where in the nominal structure gender is able to function as a classifying device, and how in the absence of gender, other functional elements in the nominal spine come to fill that gap. Other chapters focus on how gender participates in grammatical concord and agreement phenomena. The volume also discusses semantic agreement: hybrid agreement sometimes arises due to a distinction that grammars encode between natural gender on the one hand and grammatical gender on the other. The findings in the volume have significant implications for syntactic theory and theories of interpretation, and contribute to a greater understanding of the interplay between inflection and derivation. The volume will be of interest to theoretical linguists and typologists from advanced undergraduate level upwards.
General preface x
Acknowledgements xi
List of abbreviations
xii
The contributors xvii
1 Humans, gods, and demons
1(16)
Eric Mathieu
1.1 Part I: Gender and partition
3(2)
1.2 Part II: Locus of gender
5(4)
1.3 Part III: Morphosemantic noun classification
9(4)
1.4 Conclusion
13(4)
Part I Gender and partition
2 Partitioning the nominal domain: The convergence of morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
17(24)
Rose-Marie Dechaine
2.1 Introduction
17(1)
2.2 The logic of the problem
17(3)
2.3 Class and D
20(10)
2.3.1 Plains Cree animacy inflection
21(3)
2.3.2 Plains Cree class selects D
24(1)
2.3.3 Plains Cree animacy is discourse conditioned
25(3)
2.3.4 The interaction of animacy with obviation and biological gender
28(2)
2.4 Class and Number
30(9)
2.4.1 Shona n-classes
31(2)
2.4.2 Shona class is a feature on num
33(2)
2.4.3 Shona class is prolific
35(4)
2.5 Conclusion
39(2)
3 Categorization as noun construction: Gender, number, and entity types
41(26)
Paolo Acquaviva
3.1 Introduction
41(1)
3.2 Number and kind-level reading
42(5)
3.2.1 Two empirical observations
42(2)
3.2.2 Kinds and entity types
44(3)
3.3 Number and part structure
47(7)
3.3.1 The DP projection line
47(2)
3.3.2 A finer-grained division of reference
49(3)
3.3.3 Three empirical analyses
52(2)
3.4 Gender as a property of DP
54(7)
3.4.1 Gender above the `lexical' noun level
54(2)
3.4.2 `Interpreted' gender and variable positioning
56(2)
3.4.3 `Interpreted' gender and variable positioning: Evidence from Italian
58(3)
3.5 Conclusion
61(6)
Part II Locus of gender
4 Multiple facets of constructional Arabic gender and `functional universalism' in the DP
67(26)
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
4.1 Introduction
67(2)
4.2 Classifier morpho-syntax in a number language
69(10)
4.2.1 Modes of functional unitization
69(2)
4.2.2 Group classification
71(1)
4.2.3 `Pseudo-partitive' semi-functional structure
72(2)
4.2.4 Functional singulatives and pluratives
74(2)
4.2.5 More on groups and singulatives
76(3)
4.3 Many distinct patterns of gender agreement
79(10)
4.3.1 Singular low Gen agreement
79(3)
4.3.2 Non-human based plural Gen agreement
82(2)
4.3.3 The `mixed' plurative or when Gen is Num (= Group)
84(3)
4.3.4 Partitives, groups, and kinds
87(2)
4.4 Further motivation for gender as constructional
89(3)
4.4.1 Gen as a `perspectiviser'
89(1)
4.4.2 Performative Gen
90(1)
4.4.3 Paucal Gen and paucal numerals
90(1)
4.4.4 Is -t Gen or Num?
91(1)
4.5 Conclusion
92(1)
5 Limiting gender
93(26)
Christopher Hammerly
5.1 Introduction
93(1)
5.2 Gender and nominal morphology in French
94(7)
5.2.1 Alternations with animate nouns
96(1)
5.2.2 Alternations with inanimate nouns
97(2)
5.2.3 Diminutive/augmentative
99(1)
5.2.4 Singulative
100(1)
5.2.5 Adjective NPs
100(1)
5.2.6 Summary
101(1)
5.3 The structure and representation of gender features
101(4)
5.3.1 Existing accounts
101(3)
5.3.2 A feature geometry for gender
104(1)
5.4 Pathways to interpretation
105(10)
5.4.1 The denotation of gender
105(1)
5.4.2 Presuppositional accounts of gender
106(1)
5.4.3 The interpretive mechanism
107(3)
5.4.4 Implementation in French
110(4)
5.4.5 Associating meanings of sub-structures
114(1)
5.5 Limiting gender
115(2)
5.6 Conclusion
117(2)
6 The double life of gender and its structural consequences: A case study from Standard Italian
119(17)
Ivona Kuterova
6.1 Introduction
119(2)
6.2 Dissociating class marker and gender
121(4)
6.3 Natural gender and the order of syntactic operations
125(4)
6.4 Valuation from the context vs valuation from the lexicon
129(2)
6.5 Predictions: Category neutral roots
131(3)
6.6 Conclusions
134(2)
7 On gender agreement in Brazilian Portuguese
136(23)
Danniel da Silva Carvalho
7.1 Introduction
136(2)
7.2 Gender in Brazilian Portuguese
138(2)
7.3 Outlining gender as a feature
140(2)
7.4 The syntactic effect of gender
142(5)
7.5 Relativizing gender agreement
147(7)
7.6 On `non-Agreement' structures in Brazilian Portuguese
154(2)
7.7 On definiteness and agreement: The case of predicative agreement in German
156(2)
7.8 Final remarks
158(1)
8 A novel kind of gender syncretism
159(27)
Ruth Kramer
8.1 Introduction
159(1)
8.2 Background
160(5)
8.2.1 Gender, number, and syncretism
160(2)
8.2.2 Gender/number syncretism in DM
162(3)
8.3 Convergent-to-gender
165(11)
8.3.1 Maay
166(4)
8.3.2 Amharic: Prediction confirmed
170(3)
8.3.3 Haro: Metasyncretism
173(3)
8.4 Larger implications
176(7)
8.4.1 Syncretism in DM and PFM
176(1)
8.4.2 Syncretism or syntax?
177(6)
8.5 Conclusion
183(3)
9 (Grammatical) gender troubles and the gender of pronouns
186(17)
Phoevos Panagiotidis
9.1 Introduction
186(2)
9.2 Grammatical versus semantic gender
188(2)
9.3 Gender and empty nouns
190(4)
9.4 A case of grammatical transgendering
194(4)
9.5 Conclusion
198(5)
Part III Morphosemantic noun classification
10 Number, names, and animacy: Nominal classes and plural interactions in Gitksan
203(31)
Clarissa Forbes
10.1 Introduction
203(1)
10.2 The basics of Gitksan morphosyntax
204(3)
10.3 Classification in AspP: The mass/count contrast
207(8)
10.3.1 Mass/count in Gitksan
207(2)
10.3.2 Properties of stem-level plurality
209(3)
10.3.3 The structure of mass/count and stem-plurals
212(3)
10.4 Classification in DP: The common/determinate contrast
215(11)
10.4.1 Properties of the common/determinate distinction
216(3)
10.4.2 Determinate number
219(1)
10.4.3 The semantics of dip
220(4)
10.4.4 Structuring determinacy and associativity
224(2)
10.5 Classification in φP: The animacy contrast
226(6)
10.5.1 The inanimate φ-system
227(1)
10.5.2 Pronominal plurality is not stem-plurality
228(2)
10.5.3 Pronominal plurality is not equivalent to associativity
230(2)
10.6 Conclusion
232(2)
11 Plural marking on mass nouns: Evidence from Greek
234(15)
Maria Kouneli
11.1 Introduction
234(1)
11.2 Theoretical background
235(4)
11.3 Plural mass nouns in Greek
239(5)
11.4 Cross-linguistic implications
244(4)
11.4.1 Halkomelem Salish and Blackfoot
245(1)
11.4.2 Ojibwe
246(1)
11.4.3 Persian
247(1)
11.5 Conclusion
248(1)
12 Productivity vs predictability: Evidence for the syntax and semantics of Animate gender in four Northeastern-area Algonquian languages
249(17)
Conor McDonough Quinn
12.1 Introduction
249(2)
12.2 Alternative accounts, and the current proposal
251(3)
12.3 A `family'-based model of Animate status
254(3)
12.3.1 The `family'-based approach
254(1)
12.3.2 Evidence for `family' effects: dual animacy and variable animacy
255(2)
12.4 Evidence for dynamic synchronic productivity: Passamaquoddy-Maliseet and Mi'kmaw
257(1)
12.5 The `family'-based model's synchronic processes in relation to variation and (systematic) diachronic change
258(3)
12.6 Outstanding issues
261(3)
12.6.1 Falsifiability
261(1)
12.6.2 Modelling the semantics of Animate assignment
262(1)
12.6.3 Modelling the syntax of Animate assignment
263(1)
12.7 Conclusion
264(2)
13 How to phraseologize nominal number
266(15)
Solveiga Armoskaite
13.1 Introduction
266(1)
13.2 Plural and singular -yb- nominals contrast: Evidence
267(4)
13.2.1 Agreement patterns confirm the split
267(1)
13.2.2 Quantifier and numeral patterns confirm the split
268(2)
13.2.3 Base contrasts confirm the split
270(1)
13.3 Theoretical assumptions
271(4)
13.4 Proposal
275(2)
13.5 Conclusions, predictions, and further questions
277(4)
References 281(24)
Index 305
Éric Mathieu is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on French (Modern and Old) and the Algonquian language Ojibwe. His work has appeared in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Lingua, and Probus, and he is the co-editor, with Robert Truswell, of Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax (OUP, 2017).

Myriam Dali is a PhD student at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include the syntax and semantics of number and gender, the structure of the DP, the singulative, and the diachronic evolution of number marking systems. She has recently worked on the competition between plural forms in Tunisian Arabic. Her work has been published in Lingvisticae Investigationes and she has a book in preparation with John Benjamins.

Gita Zareikar is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include the syntax and semantics of bare nominals and number interpretation in general number languages. She focuses on the syntax of noun phrases and more specifically on the evolution of classifiers in non-numeral-classifier languages. She has recently been working on telicity and viewpoint aspect and its interaction with number and specificity. Her work has been published in Linguistic Variation and in the conference proceedings of NELS 46 and CLA 2015.