Gender From Latin to Romance - History, Geography, Typology

This book explores grammatical gender in the Romance languages and dialects and its evolution from Latin. It outlines the significant diversity found in the Romance varieties in this regard and uses this variation to show that traditional accounts of the loss of neuter gender cannot be correct.

About the author

Michele Loporcaro is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Zurich. He previously held positions at the Universities of Padua and Cosenza, in addition to visiting professorships at several universities in Europe and the USA and visiting fellowships at Magdalen College, Oxford (2012) and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2013-14), and the Italian Academy for Advances Studies in America at Columbia University in the City of New York (2017). In 2012, he received the Antonio Feltrinelli prize for his work in Italian linguistics. His research interests include historical linguistics, linguistic historiography, and the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Italo-Romance linguistic varieties. His work has been published widely in many journals and he is the author of several books, including Profilo linguistico dei dialetti italiani (Laterza 2009; 3rd edn. 2013), and Vowel Length from Latin to Romance (OUP 2015).

Summary

This book explores grammatical gender in the Romance languages and dialects and its evolution from Latin. It outlines the significant diversity found in the Romance varieties in this regard and uses this variation to show that traditional accounts of the loss of neuter gender cannot be correct.

Additional text

Undoubtedly a very important contribution to research, particularly remarkable for the richness of the data and the sharpness of the analyses put forward. It will certainly leave its mark in the field of Romance morphology. Highly recommended.

Product details

• Authors: Michele Loporcaro, Michele (Full Professor of Romance Ling Loporcaro, Loporcaro Michele
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780199656547
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965654-7
• No. of pages: 414
• Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Diachronic a
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Romance, Italic & Rhaeto-Romanic languages, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Historical and comparative linguistics