Gender across languages

by Hellinger, Marlis Motschenbacher, Heiko

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Full title :Gender across languages. / edited by Marlis Hellinger, Heiko Motschenbacher.

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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, Thai-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 Statements

Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 415 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789027268860, 902726886X
oclc:ocn905601339
LC Classification:P240.7
Dewey Decimal:415

The linguistic representation of women and men / Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bussman -- Some new perspectives on gendered language structures / Heiko Motschenbacher -- Structural gender trouble in Croatian / Heiko Motschenbacher and Marija Weikert -- Gender in a planned language : Esperanto / Sabine Fiedler -- The representation of gender in Estonian / Cornelius Hasselblatt -- Probing the manifestations of gender in Ga / Benedicta Adokarley Lomotey -- Gender in Swiss German / Helen Christen and Daniel Elmiger -- Gender trouble in a grammatically genderless language : Hungarian / Louise O. Vasvári -- The linguistic representation and communication of gender in Igbo / Arua E. Arua -- Gender in Kurdish : structural and socio-cultural dimensions / Geoffrey Haig and Ergin Öpengin -- Gender in Oneida / Karin Michelson -- Gender in Portuguese / Annette Endruschat -- Gender in Slovenian / Ursula Doleschal -- The linguistic representation of gender in Thai / Korakoch Attaviriyanupap.