Full Description
This handbook offers a detailed account of grammatical gender and classifiers, two closely related linguistic phenomena that are used to subcategorize the nominal system in many languages of the world. The contributors draw on data from a variety of typologically diverse languages and approach the topic from a range of different perspectives. In the first part, chapters summarize current theoretical research in the field, as well as suggesting new ways to analyse the relevant lexico-syntactic features. Part II turns instead to the substantial body of research on the acquisition of gender and classifier systems in different language families, while chapters in Part III explore the representation and processing of these systems, including coverage of code-switching and language processing in aphasia. Both these parts feature examples and data not only from Indo-European languages but also from under-represented and endangered languages. The final part of the volume presents a broad typological overview of gender and classifier systems across the world, with examples from Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Classifiers will be a valuable resource for researchers and scholars in morphosyntax, typology, psycholinguistics, and cognitive neuroscience of language.
Contents
Part I. Grammatical gender and classifiers in linguistic theory 1: Sebastian Fedden and Greville G Corbett: Typology of grammatical gender and classifiers 2: Walter Bisang: Nominal classification from a typological perspective 3: Sandrine Zufferey, Ute Gabriel, and Pascal Gygax: Grammatical gender versus natural gender 4: Ruth Kramer: Gender assignment and classifier association 5: Jenny Audring: Grammatical gender agreement systems 6: Artemis Alexiadou and Terje Lohndal: Grammatical gender in syntactic theory Part II. Acquisition of grammatical gender and classifiers 7: Tanja Kupisch, Monika Lindauer, and Tobias Ruberg: The acquisition of grammatical gender in German 8: Brechje Van Osch: The acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch 9: Yulia Rodina and Marit Westergaard: The acquisition of grammatical gender in North Germanic languages 10: Tanja Kupisch, Cristina Flores, Silvina Montrul, and Sílvia Perpiñán: The acquisition of gender in Romance languages 11: Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan, Oksana Laleko, Natalia Meir, Natalia Mitrofanova, and Yulia Rodina: The acquisition of grammatical gender in Slavic languages 12: Maki Kubota, Junko Kanero, and Jiuzhou Hao: The acquisition of classifiers 13: Katherine Demuth: The acquisition of noun class prefixes in Bantu languages Part III. Representation and processing of grammatical gender and classifiers 14: Niels O. Schiller and Ana Rita Sá Leite: The psycholinguistics of grammatical gender 15: Zhiying Qian: The psycholinguistics of classifiers 16: Niels O. Schiller and José Alemán Bañón: The neurolinguistics of grammatical gender 17: Man Wang and Niels O. Schiller: The neurolinguistics of classifiers 18: M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Kate Bellamy, Jorge R. Valdés Kroff, and Pedro Mateo Pedro: Nominal classification in code-switching 19: Giorgio Piazza and Marco Calabria: Grammatical gender processing in aphasia 20: Mulugeta T. Tsegaye: Field-based psycholinguistics of gender processing in endangered minority languages Part IV. Typology of grammatical gender and classifiers 21: Tor Anders Åfarli and Terje Lohndal: Grammatical gender in Germanic languages 22: Michele Loporcaro: Grammatical gender in Romance languages 23: Bernhard Brehmer: Grammatical gender in the Slavic languages 24: Saskia Dunn and Françoise Rose: Classifiers in Arawak languages 25: Marianne Mithun: Grammatical gender in North American languages 26: Roland Kießling: Grammatical gender and classifiers in African languages 27: Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Bianca Basciano: Classifiers in East and Mainland Southeast Asian languages 28: Maria Polinsky and Victoria Chen: Grammatical gender and classifiers in Austronesian languages 29: Ulrika Klomp, Maria Kopf, and Cornelia Loos: Grammatical and semantic gender in sign languages
