Gender and Noun Classification

Eric Mathieu is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on French (Modern and Old) and the Algonquian language Ojibwe. His work has appeared in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Lingua, and Probus, and he is the co-editor, with Robert Truswell, of Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax (OUP, 2017).

Myriam Dali is a PhD student at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include the syntax and semantics of number and gender, the structure of the DP, the singulative, and the diachronic evolution of number marking systems. She has recently worked on the competition between plural forms in Tunisian Arabic. Her work has been published in Lingvisticae Investigationes and she has a book in preparation with John Benjamins.

Gita Zareikar is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include the syntax and semantics of bare nominals and number interpretation in general number languages. She focuses on the syntax of noun phrases and more specifically on the evolution of classifiers in non-numeral-classifier languages. She has recently been working on telicity and viewpoint aspect and its interaction with number and specificity. Her work has been published in Linguistic Variation and in the conference proceedings of NELS 46 and CLA 2015.

1. Humans, gods, and demons, Eric Mathieu
Part I. Gender and partition
2. Partitioning the nominal domain: The convergence of morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, Rose-Marie Dechaine
3. Categorization as noun construction: Gender, number, and entity types, Paolo Acquaviva
Part II. Locus of gender
4. Multiple facets of constructional Arabic Gender and 'functional universalism' in the DP, Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
5. Limiting gender, Christopher Hammerly
6. The double life of gender and its structural consequences: A case study from Standard Italian, Ivona Kučerova
7. On gender and agreement in Brazilian Portuguese, Danniel da Silva Carvalho
8. A novel kind of gender syncretism, Ruth Kramer
9. (Grammatical) gender troubles and the gender of pronouns, Phoevos Panagiotidis
Part III. Morphosemantic noun classification
10. Number, names, and animacy: Nominal classes and plural interactions in Gitksan, Clarissa Forbes
11. Plural marking on mass nouns: Evidence from Greek, Maria Kouneli
12. Productivity vs. predictability: Evidence for the syntax and semantics of Animate gender in four Northeastern-area Algonquian languages, Conor McDonough Quinn
13. How to phraseologize nominal number, Solveiga Armoskaite
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