From Number to Gender, from Dual to Virile

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of Contributors vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Part I. Number and Gender Systems Across Languages
6. 1. Noun Classification Systems
7. Noun Class as Number in Swahili 3
8. Deixis and Noun-Classification in Pilagá and Beyond 31
9. 2. Number Systems
10. Number in the English Substantive 59
11. From Number to Gender, from Dual to Virile 73
12. The Dual Number in Hebrew 87
13. 3. Gender Systems
14. The Acategorial Lexicon and the Pairing Strategies 123
15. Grammatical and Lexical Behavior in the Development of the Spanish Third-Person Clitics 159
16. The Grammar of English Gender 185
17. Recasting Animacy 205
18. Part II. Verb Systems and Parts of Speech Across Languages
19. 1. Tense and Aspect
20. Eventuality Classification 227
21. Resultativeness 255
22. 2. Parts of Speech
23. Complex -er Nominals 291
24. Modern Hebrew Adverbials 333
25. Name Index 353
26. Subject Index 361