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Chargement... The Morphosyntax of Gender (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)par Ruth Kramer
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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 ofgender. 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 inSpanish. 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 diverseset 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 firstlarge-scale, cross-linguistically-oriented, theoretical approaches to the morphosyntax of gender. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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