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Gender from Latin to Romance : history, geography, typology
- Title
- Gender from Latin to Romance : history, geography, typology / Michele Loporcaro.
- Author
- Loporcaro, Michele.
- Publication
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- xxiv, 385 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book explores grammatical gender in the Romance languages and dialects and its evolution from Latin. Michele Loporcaro investigates the significant diversity found in the Romance varieties in this regard; he draws on data from the Middle Ages to the present from all the Romance languages and dialects, discussing examples from Romanian to Portuguese and crucially also focusing on less widely-studied varieties such as Sursilvan, Neapolitan, and Asturian. The investigation first reveals that several varieties display more complex systems than the binary masculine/feminine contrast familiar from modern French or Italian. Moreover, it emerges that traditional accounts, whereby neuter gender was lost in the spoken Latin of the late Empire, cannot be correct: instead, the neuter gender underwent a range of different transformations from Late Latin onwards, which are responsible for the different systems that can be observed today across the Romance languages. The volume provides a detailed description of many of these systems, which in turns reveals a wealth of fascinating data, such as varieties where 'husbands' are feminine and others where 'wives' are masculine; dialects in which nouns overtly mark gender, but only in certain syntactic contexts; and one Romance variety (Asturian) in which it appears that grammatical gender has split into two concurrent systems.
- Series Statement
- Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 27
- Uniform Title
- Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 27.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-364) and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The starting point: gender in Latin -- Grammatical gender in Romance: the mainstream -- Romance gender systems: the fuller picture -- Mass/countness and gender in Asturian -- The older stages of the Romance languages - Gender from Latin to Romance: a reconstruction -- The typological interest of lesser-known Romance gender systems.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-5734
- ISBN
- 0199656541
- 9780199656547
- OCLC
- 986956385
- Author
- Loporcaro, Michele.
- Title
- Gender from Latin to Romance : history, geography, typology / Michele Loporcaro.
- Publisher
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill imagecartographic image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 27Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 27.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-364) and indexes.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-5734