The morphosyntax of gender /
Phi features are crucial for syntax and morphology, and number and person have been the focus of a significant amount of theoretical research. However, gender has received less attention. This book presents a cross-linguistic analysis of gender that aims to address critical questions. The book argue...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ;
58. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Phi features are crucial for syntax and morphology, and number and person have been the focus of a significant amount of theoretical research. However, gender has received less attention. This book presents a cross-linguistic analysis of gender that aims to address critical questions. The book argues that gender features are syntactically located on the n head ('little n'), which serves to nominalise category-neutral roots. Those gender features are either interpretable (in the case of natural gender) or uninterpretable (like the gender of an inanimate noun in Spanish). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 286 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-279) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780191669538 0191669539 9780191760129 0191760129 |