Gender Across Languages
Volume 4
- Editor(s): Marlis Hellinger 1 and Heiko Motschenbacher 2
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 Goethe University Frankfurt2 Technical University of Braunschweig
- Format: PDF
- Publication Date April 2015
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027268860
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.36
This is the fourth volume of a comprehensive reference work which provides systematic descriptions of the manifestations of gender in languages of diverse areal, typological and socio-cultural affiliations. To the 30 languages already analysed in previous volumes, Vol. 4 adds another 12 languages whose gendered structures have received little or no academic attention in the past. Again, the collection includes a broad spectrum of languages: It contains languages with and without grammatical gender, a language with noun classification and a classifier language; larger national languages as well as smaller languages with minority status; and, of course, members of diverse language families, i.e. Indo-European as well as Finno-Ugrian, Iroquois, Tai-Kadai and Niger-Congo. The volume illustrates the tremendous variation found in the area of gender representation across languages. At the same time, it will provide the much-needed material required for an explicitly comparative approach to linguistic manifestations of gender.
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