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Gender assignment and the structure of the lexicon
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Philipp Conzett
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25. September 2009
Abstract
This article provides a general survey of a number of (mostly Indo-European) gender systems. In more recent years, regularities found in those systems have been accounted for by rule-based approaches where gender is assigned on-line by symbolic rules. A critical investigation of those accounts suggests that gender of existing nouns is stored individually, but that there must also be a mechanism that assigns gender to new nouns. It is argued that this behaviour is more adequately accounted for in a network model and it is shown how gender assignment can shed light on lexical structure at large.
Keywords: gender assignment rules; storing vs. computing; lexical retrieval; cognitive salience; bnetwork model
Published Online: 2009-09-25
Published in Print: 2006-09
© Akademie Verlag
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- Introduction
- Gender assignment and the structure of the lexicon
- “Affixoidhungrig? Skitbra!” Comparing affixoids in German and Swedish
- ”Some like it hot”: On the semantics of temperature adjectives in Russian and Swedish
- On the borderline between lexicon and grammar: confixes in Modern Greek and Italian
- Source-Goal (in)difference and the typology of motion events in the clause
- Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Classifiers. A typology of noun categorization devices, (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
- Geert Booij, The grammar of words. An introduction to linguistic morphology (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005
- Reinhold Kontzi, Sprachkontakt im Mittelmeer. Gesammelte Aufsätze zum Maltesischen, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2005
- Silvia Kouwenberg (ed.), Twice as meaningful. Reduplication in Pidgins, Creoles and other contact languages (Westminster Creolistics Series 8), London: Battlebridge, 2003
- Roderick Bovingdon, The Maltese language of Australia: Maltraljan. A lexical compilation with linguistic notations and a social, political and historical background (Languages of the World 16), München/Newcastle: LINCOM Europa, 2001
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
gender assignment rules;
storing vs. computing;
lexical retrieval;
cognitive salience;
bnetwork model
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Introduction
- Gender assignment and the structure of the lexicon
- “Affixoidhungrig? Skitbra!” Comparing affixoids in German and Swedish
- ”Some like it hot”: On the semantics of temperature adjectives in Russian and Swedish
- On the borderline between lexicon and grammar: confixes in Modern Greek and Italian
- Source-Goal (in)difference and the typology of motion events in the clause
- Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Classifiers. A typology of noun categorization devices, (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
- Geert Booij, The grammar of words. An introduction to linguistic morphology (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005
- Reinhold Kontzi, Sprachkontakt im Mittelmeer. Gesammelte Aufsätze zum Maltesischen, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2005
- Silvia Kouwenberg (ed.), Twice as meaningful. Reduplication in Pidgins, Creoles and other contact languages (Westminster Creolistics Series 8), London: Battlebridge, 2003
- Roderick Bovingdon, The Maltese language of Australia: Maltraljan. A lexical compilation with linguistic notations and a social, political and historical background (Languages of the World 16), München/Newcastle: LINCOM Europa, 2001
