Gender Across Languages

Name: Gender Across Languages
Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Co
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By Marlis Hellinger

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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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Binding:: Paperback
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 415
Publisher:: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Publication Date:: 2015-04-09
ISBN / EAN:: 9789027218780
Weight:: 772 g
Dimensions:: 163/243/21 cm

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