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This book offers the first comprehensive survey of the study of gender and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics. Based on an analysis of over 200 genetically and typologically diverse languages, the author shows that these seemingly arbitrary and redundant categories play in fact a central role in the lexicon, grammar and the organization of discourse. As a result, the often contradictory approaches to their functionality and semantic motivation encapsulate the evolving conceptions of such issues as cognitive and cultural correlates of linguistic structure, the diverse fun
Language and languages --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Langage --- Typologie (Linguistique) --- Classification. --- Classification --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistic typology --- Linguistics --- Linguistic universals --- Typology
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