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Gender

Gender

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 0521329396
ISBN13: 9780521329392
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 26 1991
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.61
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Gender is a fascinating category, central and pervasive in some languages and totally absent in others. In this new, overall account of gender systems, over 200 languages are discussed, from English and Russian to Archi and Chichewa. More detailed analysis of individual languages provides clear illustrations of specific types of systems. Gender distinction is often based on sex; sometimes this is only one criterion and the gender of nouns depends on other factors (thus house is masculine in Russian, feminine in French and neuter in Tamil). On occasion there are equivalent distinctions such as human/non-human, animate/inanimate, where sex is irrelevant.

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