Animacy and the notion of semantic gender

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Preface IX
4. Gender: New light on an old category. An introduction XV
5. Part 1: Approaches to gender
6. Gender classification and the inflectional system of German nouns 1
7. Gender in North Germanic: A diasystematic and functional approach 25
8. Default genders 55
9. Animacy and the notion of semantic gender 99
10. Gender assignment revisited 117
11. Proper names and gender in Swedish 167
12. Reorganization of a gender system: The Central Italian neuters 221
13. Gender in Old High German 237
14. Classifiers versus genders and noun classes: A case study in Vietnamese 259
15. Gender in Teop (Bougainville, Papua New Guinea) 321
16. Gender and number in acquisition 351
17. Verbal classification and number: A case study in Navajo (Athapaskan/Na-Dene) 401
18. Nominal abstracts and gender in Modern German: A "quantitative" approach towards the function of gender 461
19. On the function of gender 495
20. German gender in children's second language acquisition 511
21. Part 2: Manifestations of gender
22. How many gender categories are there in Swedish? 545
23. Gender categories in early English grammars: Their message to the modern grammarian 561
24. Elementary gender distinctions 577
25. Grammatical gender and its development in Classical Arabic 595
26. Gender in French: A diachronic perspective 609
27. On the phonology of gender in Modern German 621
28. Noun classification in African languages 665
29. Grammatical gender from east to west 689
30. Inflectional classes, morphological restructuring, and the dissolution of Old English grammatical gender 709
31. Norm versus use: On gender in Polish 729
32. Use and misuse of gender in Czech 749
33. On gender assignment in Russian 771
34. The changing system of grammatical gender in the Swedish dialects of Nyland, Finland 793
35. Name index 807
36. Language index 815
37. Subject index 819