Morphosyntax of Gender

Informationen zum Autor Ruth Kramer is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She received her doctorate in 2009 from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the syntax-morphology interface, especially phi features, clitics, and agreement, and she also specializes in the morphosyntax of the Ethiosemitic language Amharic. Her publications include articles in Lingua, Language Sciences, The Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, Syntax, Linguistic Inquiry, and Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Klappentext This book presents a new approach to gender and its effects on morphosyntax. Using data from genetically diverse languages such as Amharic, Somali, and Romanian, it provides one of the first large-scale, cross-linguistically-oriented, theoretical approaches to the word and sentence structure effects of gender. Zusammenfassung This book presents a new approach to gender and its effects on morphosyntax. Using data from genetically diverse languages such as Amharic, Somali, and Romanian, it provides one of the first large-scale, cross-linguistically-oriented, theoretical approaches to the word and sentence structure effects of gender.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Kramer, Ruth (Assistant Professor Kramer, Kramer Ruth
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2015
• EAN: 9780199679935
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967993-5
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Theoretical; Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Theoretical
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Grammatik, Syntax und Morphologie, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc