Gender in Grammar and Cognition (I: Approaches to Gender. II: Manifestations of Gender) ||

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. Preface 9 Gender: New light on an old category 15 An introduction 15 Part 1: Approaches to gender 47 Gender classification and the inflectional system of German nouns 47 Gender in North Germanic: A diasystematic and functional approach 71 Default genders 101 Animacy and the notion of semantic gender 145 Gender assignment revisited 163 Proper names and gender in Swedish 213 Reorganization of a gender system: The Central Italian neuters 267 Gender in Old High German 283 Classifiers versus genders and noun classes: A case study in Vietnamese 305 Gender in Teop (Bougainville, Papua New Guinea) 367 Gender and number in acquisitioa 397 Verbal classification and number: A case study in Navajo (Athapaskan/Na-Dene) 449 Nominal abstracts and gender in Modern German: A “quantitative” approach towards the function of gender 509 On the function of gender 543 German gender in children’s second language acquisition 559 Part 2: Manifestations of gender 593 How many gender categories are there in Swedish? 593 Gender categories in early English grammars: Their message to the modern grammarian 609 Elementary gender distinctions 625 Grammatical gender and its development in Classical Arabic 643 Gender in French: A diachronic perspective 657 On the phonology of gender in Modern German 669 Noun classification in African languages 713 Grammatical gender from east to west 737 Inflectional classes, morphological restructuring, and the dissolution of Old English grammatical gender 757 Norm versus use: On gender in Polish 777 Use and misuse of gender in Czech 797 On gender assignment in Russian 819 The changing system of grammatical gender in the Swedish dialects of Nyland, Finland 841 Name index 855 Language index 863 Subject index 867

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

The following ideas on the nominal inflection of German and their connection to gender classification take as their starting point the assumptions of the naturalness theoretic framework. Approaches to gender / edited by Barbara Unterbeck Manifestations of gender edited by Matti Rissanen, Terttu Nevalainen and Mirja Saari.