Download or read book Gender in Indo European written by Ranko Matasović and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the origin and history of the grammatical category of gender in the Indo-European family of languages. Gender systems of Proto-Indo-European (PIE), and of the various daughter languages are assessed from historical, typological, and areal points of view. In addition, common properties and tendencies (or drift) in the development of gender in different Indo-European branches are presented. The formal and semantic principles of gender assignment in PIE are examined on the basis of a reconstructed lexicon of PIE nouns, and the scope of gender agreement in the proto-language is reconstructed by comparing the agreement rules in the early Indo-European dialects. The Early PIE two-gender system and the development of the feminine gender in Late PIE are also discussed, and finally the PIE gender system is contrasted with the typologically rather different gender systems found in the neighboring areas of Eurasia.
Download or read book The Nature and Origin of the Noun Genders in the Indo European Languages written by Karl Brugmann and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies on the Collective and Feminine in Indo European from a Diachronic and Typological Perspective written by Sergio Neri and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains thirteen contributions on the origin of the feminine gender and its relation to the collective in the Indo-European parent language. The Indo-European daughter languages have got mostly a three-gender system, however the early attested Anatolian languages owned only two genders. In this respect, it is debatable whether the feminine gender is primary or arose secondarily from another morphological category. Due to special morphological and morphosyntactic phenomena it is also questionable whether the neuter plural of the individual languages continues an inflectional category or it was rather grammaticalized from an original word formation category collective. The authors suggest different approaches on the question of the relationship between feminine and collective.
Download or read book The Origin of Grammatical Gender in Indo European written by Linzey Kupsh and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Femininum Genus written by Francisco José Ledo-Lemos and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nature and Origin of the Noun Genders in the Indo European Languages A Lecture Delivered on the Occasion of the Sesquicentennial Celebration of P written by Karl Brugmann and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Nature and Origin of the Noun Genders in the Indo European Languages written by Karl Brugmann and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Nature and Origin of the Noun Genders in the Indo-European Languages: A Lecture Delivered on the Occasion of the Sesquicentennial Celebration of Princeton University The factors that produced changes in human speech five thousand or ten thousand years ago cannot have been essentially different from those which are now operating to transform living languages. On the basis of this principle we look to-day at a much-discussed problem of Indo-European philology with views very different from the views held by the founders of Comparative Philology and their immediate successors. I refer to the problem, how the Indo-European people came to assign gender to nouns, to distinguish between masculine, feminine, and neuter. This question is of interest to others besides philologists. What man of culture who has learned languages such as the Greek, Latin, or French has not at times wondered that objects which have no possible connection with the natural gender of animals appear constantly in the language as male or female? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Gender in Proto Indo European and the Feminine Morphemes written by Nicole Elizabeth Dreier and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three-gender system seen in the core Indo-European languages is not the oldest gender system in Proto-Indo-European (PIE). There is evidence of an earlier animacy-based, two-gender system in PIE, which raises the question of how the third gender (i.e. the feminine) came to be. Its origins are made even more uncertain by the feminizing suffixes *-(e)h2-, *-ih2-, and *-i-hx-, as they show older functions, such as deriving collective and abstract nouns. This thesis outlines some of the many explanations scholars have offered for these questions over the last two centuries and ultimately argues that a combination of these and other factors may have been involved in this change to the PIE gender system.
Download or read book A Language of Our Own written by Peter Bakker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible language" since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and fieldwork data to present the first detailed analysis of this language and how it came into being.
Download or read book The Origin and Development of Gender in the Indo European Language Family a New Viewpoint written by Kenneth Shields (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Third Gender written by Frederick W. Schwink and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Third Gender' treats the history and development of grammatical gender from Indo-European to Germanic and into the daughter languages. Grammatical gender has hitherto received only peripheral attention in histories of the Germanic languages. This relative neglect is unfortunate, for this nominal category holds the key to understanding the massive transformations that have occurred in the nominal systems of all the Indo-European languages, which Schwink claims are in considerable part due to problems arising out of the innovation of a 'third' gender, a feminine, disturbing the earlier classification of nouns into animate and inanimate. Gender offers clear evidence that Germanic represents an extremely archaic form of Indo-European. And understanding gender in a historical perspective allows us to draw together such disparate developments as found in Modern English, German, and Dutch and to show their essential similarity and relatedness.
Download or read book Grammatical Change in Indo European Languages written by Vit Bubenik and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, and the central issue of grammaticalization in Indo-European languages. Several studies examine particular problems in specific languages, but often with implications for the IE phylum as a whole. Given the historical scope of the data (over a period of four millennia) long range grammatical changes such as the development of gender differences, strategies of definiteness, the prepositional phrase, or of the syntax of the verbal diathesis and aspect, are also treated. The shifting relevance of morphology to syntax, and syntax to morphology, a central motif of this research, has provoked lively debate in the discipline of Historical Linguistics.
Download or read book Gender Across Languages written by Marlis Hellinger and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Origin and Development of Gender in the Indo European Language Family written by Kenneth Shields and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grammatical Gender in Interaction written by Angeliki Alvanoudi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Grammatical Gender in Interaction: Cultural and Cognitive Aspects Angeliki Alvanoudi explores the relation between grammatical gender in person reference, culture and cognition in Modern Greek conversation. The author investigates the cultural and cognitive aspects of grammatical gender, by drawing on feminist sociolinguistic and non-linguistic approaches, cognitive linguistics, research on linguistic relativity, studies on person reference in interaction and conversation analysis. The study presented in this book shows that the use of grammatical gender contributes to the routine achievement of sociocultural gender in interaction and that grammatical gender guides speakers’ thinking of referents as female or male at the time of speaking.
Download or read book The Origin and Development of Gender in the Indo european Language Family written by Kenneth Clair Shields and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Four Gender systems in Indo European written by Michele Loporcaro and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: