dc.contributor.editor
Garbo, Francesca Di
dc.contributor.editor
Olsson, Bruno
dc.contributor.editor
Wälchli, Bernhard
dc.date.accessioned
2019-11-07T09:33:57Z
dc.date.available
2019-11-07T09:33:57Z
dc.identifier.isbn
978-3-96110-179-5
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/25895
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-25655
dc.description.abstract
The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters on the topic of grammatical gender seen through the prism of linguistic complexity. The contributions discuss what counts as complex and/or simple in grammatical gender systems, whether the distribution of gender systems across the world’s languages relates to the language ecology and social history of speech communities. Contributors demonstrate how the complexity of gender systems can be studied synchronically, both in individual languages and over large cross-linguistic samples, and diachronically, by exploring how gender systems change over time. In addition to three chapters on the theoretical foundations of gender complexity, volume one contains six chapters on grammatical gender and complexity in individual languages and language families of Africa, New Guinea, and South Asia.
This volume is complemented by volume two, which consists of three chapters providing diachronic and typological case studies, followed by a final chapter discussing old and new theoretical and empirical challenges in the study of the dynamics of gender complexity.
en
dc.format.extent
vi, 340 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/refubium/rechtliches/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject
grammatical gender
en
dc.subject
linguistic complexity
en
dc.subject.ddc
400 Sprache::410 Linguistik::410 Linguistik
dc.title
Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity
dc.title.subtitle
Volume I: General issues and specific studies
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.5281/zenodo.3446224
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishername
Language Science Press
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/223
refubium.affiliation
Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
yes
refubium.series.issueNumber
26
refubium.series.name
Studies in Diversity Linguistics
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dc.identifier.eisbn
978-3-96110-178-8