| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Impact, studies in language and society,
1385-7908 ;
v. 9
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Impact, studies in language and society ; 9-<11>.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
This is the first of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on "Gender across Languages", which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed for each language are the following: What are the structural properties of the language that have an impact on the relations between language and gender? What are the consequences for areas such as agreement, pronominalisation and word-formation? How is specification of and abstract. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Contents -- Languages of Volume II -- Languages of Volume III -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Gender across languages -- Arabic: Shifting sands -- Belizean Creole: Belizean Creole -- Eastern Maroon Creole: Communicating gender in the Eastern Maroon Creole of Suriname -- English: English 8211; Gender in a global language -- English: A corpus-based view of gender in New Zealand English -- English: Spreading the feminist word -- English: A corpus-based view of gender in British and American English -- Hebrew: Gender switch in Modern Hebrew -- Indonesian: Gender in Javanese Indonesian -- Romanian: Deconstructing gender 8211; The case of Romania -- Russian: Doing gender in Russian -- Turkish: The communication of gender in Turkish -- Notes on contributors -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series IMPACT:STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Some texts are in various languages. |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Gender.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Gender. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hellinger, Marlis.
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Bussmann, Hadumod.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gender across languages. Volume 1. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2001 1588110826 9781588110824 (DLC) 2001037888 (OCoLC)47270450 |
| ISBN |
9789027298270 (electronic book) |
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9027298270 (electronic book) |
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1282162578 |
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9781282162570 |
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