Gender as a property of words and as a property of structures

Acquaviva, P

doi:10.5565/rev/catjl.313

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“…Of course, the presence of masculine or feminine morphology does not directly imply the presence of males or females (see Acquaviva 2020), or that the morphological exponents of (c) only apply to things. But we take third-person elements to contain a list of descriptive features that allow to build a basic concept of the expression.…”

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Adverbial Agreement: Phi Features, Nominalizations, and Fragment Answers

Massaro

2023

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We investigate adverbial agreement in Sandəmarkesə (S. Marco in Lamis, Apulia) proposing phase-bound, local agreement relations, reducible to coordination, as in past and absolute participial constructions, suggesting a copulaless analysis where arguments are subjects in a small clause. With disjunct nominals with matching φ-features, the adverb agrees separately with each part in the set, otherwise resulting in ‘non-agreeing’ forms, which we test also with negative polarity items (niʃun-, ‘nobody’ and nentə, ‘nothing’). With fragment answers, the negation scopes over adverbs agreeing with the two proposed topics: matching of the φ-features of both nouns values the negative operator with the same features. In fronted adverbs, agreement occurs when the question contains overt coordinated arguments, elements continuing a chain, and if coordinated arguments have matching φ-features. In agreement in topical contexts with fronted adverbs, agreement occurs with the aboutness-shift topic closely preceding them, rather than with the embedded direct object.

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Adverbial Agreement: Phi Features, Nominalizations, and Fragment Answers

Massaro

2023

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“…Linguists define genders with the emphasis on grammar such as this one: genders are 'paradigmatic classes of nouns, established on syntagmatic evidence' (Loporcaro, 2018). These definitions underline that 'gender systems just provide a grammarinternal set of oppositions to define paradigmatic classes' (Acquaviva, 2020). Gender is thus a property of structures because structural properties can predictively derive the constrained distribution of semantically motivated gender assignment (Acquaviva, 2020).…”

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“…These definitions underline that 'gender systems just provide a grammarinternal set of oppositions to define paradigmatic classes' (Acquaviva, 2020). Gender is thus a property of structures because structural properties can predictively derive the constrained distribution of semantically motivated gender assignment (Acquaviva, 2020). The possibility of semantic motivation for gender in the English language is raised in many works of linguists.…”

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Compatibility of Semantics of Suffixes with Gender Assignment in Old English

Soloviova

Bloshchynskyi²,

Tsviak³

et al. 2021

International Journal of English Language and Literature Studie

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Chapter 14. Acoustic properties of word-final vowels and the acquisition of gender in Spanish-English heritage speakers

Colantoni,

Pérez Leroux

2024

Studies in Bilingualism

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This chapter explores whether contact-induced reduction in the inventory of Spanish unstressed vowels due to contact with English impacts the development of gender morphology and concord in Spanish-English bilinguals, through the comparison of recent findings from narratives elicited from bilingual adults and children born in the US. Final unstressed /a, e, o/ were acoustically analyzed and noun phrases were grammatically analyzed. Adult early bilinguals displayed a large degree of vocalic overlap but were highly accurate in gender. Children showed variability in their patterns of vocalic overlap and in gender accuracy ranging between 66% to 100%. Results do not offer a strong support for the hypothesis of a phonetic contribution to heritage gender divergence and call for refined analyses of the interaction between phonetics and morphosyntax in gender acquisition.

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Gender as a property of words and as a property of structures

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

Adverbial Agreement: Phi Features, Nominalizations, and Fragment Answers

Adverbial Agreement: Phi Features, Nominalizations, and Fragment Answers

Compatibility of Semantics of Suffixes with Gender Assignment in Old English

Chapter 14. Acoustic properties of word-final vowels and the acquisition of gender in Spanish-English heritage speakers

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