Gender Across Languages: Volume 4: 36 (IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027218773 ISBN 13: 9789027218773

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2015

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027218773
• ISBN 13: 9789027218773
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 430
• Editor: Hellinger Marlis, Motschenbacher Heiko