This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages. Following a detailed introduction to noun catego

Surveys gender across a range of languages. For class use and as a reference resource for students and researchers in linguistics.

This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for family life, patterns of socialization, distribution of tasks, an

This title offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages. Every language has some means of categorizing obj

Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. Languages of South-East Asia have classifiers used with numerals, while most Indo-European languages