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010			_a 2014958986
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020			_a9780199679935 (hbk.)
020			_a0199679932 (hbk.)
020			_a9780199679942 (pbk.)
020			_a0199679940 (pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn900685459
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050	0	0	_aP240.7 _b.K73 2015
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100	1		_aKramer, Ruth _q(Ruth T.), _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe morphosyntax of gender / _cRuth Kramer.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2015.
300			_axv, 286 p. ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aOxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; _v58
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [257]-279) and indexes.
520	8		_aThis 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 of gender. 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 in Spanish. 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 diverse set of languages.0Finally, 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 first large-scale, cross-linguistically-oriented, theoretical approaches to the morphosyntax of gender.
650		0	_aGrammar, Comparative and general _xGender.
650		0	_aGrammar, Comparative and general _xMorphosyntax.
650		0	_aAmharic language _xGender.
650		7	_aGenus. _2gnd _0(DE-588)4124912-4
650		7	_aMorphosyntax. _2gnd _0(DE-588)4114635-9
830		0	_aOxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; _v58.
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