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Changing gender systems: A multidisciplinary approach
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Mark Janse
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Brian D. Joseph
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October 19, 2011
This article addresses various issues in the diachrony of gender marking, such as the origin and typology of gender systems, pathways of change and the question of directionality in relation to the Agreement Hierarchy, and the semantic basis of changes in gender systems in relation to the Individuation Hierarchy. It also offers an overview of recent multidisciplinary approaches to the evolution of gender systems including language acquisition research, contact linguistics, and theoretical syntax.
Keywords:: gender systems; grammatical gender; semantic gender; Agreement Hierarchy; Individuation Hierarchy; resemanticization; language change
Published Online: 2011-10-19
Published in Print: 2011-October
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Keywords for this article
gender systems;
grammatical gender;
semantic gender;
Agreement Hierarchy;
Individuation Hierarchy;
resemanticization;
language change
Articles in the same Issue
- Changing gender systems: A multidisciplinary approach
- Dutch gender and the locus of morphological regularization
- Gender in Irish between continuity and change
- Semantically driven change in German(ic) gender morphology
- The interaction of gender and declension in Germanic languages
- Four-gender systems in Indo-European
- The origin of the Proto-Indo-European gender system: Typological considerations
- A Minimalist approach to gender agreement in the Afro-Bolivian DP: Variation and the specification of uninterpretable features
- From lexical to referential gender: An analysis of gender change in medieval English based on two historical documents
- Book Reviews
- In Memoriam Anna Siewierska
- Acknowledgements
- Index to Volume 45
