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Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity
Vol. 1: General issues and specific studies.
Berlin :
Language Science Press, 2019.
Under the general editorship: F. Di Garbo, B. Olsson, B. Wälchli
he many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters on the topic of grammatical gender seen through the prism of linguistic complexity. The contributions discuss what counts as complex and/or simple in grammatical gender systems, whether the distribution of gender systems across the world’s languages relates to the language ecology and social history of speech communities. Contributors demonstrate how the complexity of gender systems can be studied synchronically, both in individual languages and over large cross-linguistic samples, and diachronically, by exploring how gender systems change over time. In addition to three chapters on the theoretical foundations of gender complexity, volume one contains six chapters on grammatical gender and complexity in individual languages and language families of Africa, New Guinea, and South Asia.
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Nichols J., , in: Grammatical gender and linguistic complexityVol. 1: General issues and specific studies.: Berlin: Language Science Press, 2019. Ch. 4 P. 63–92.
A cross-linguistic survey shows that languages with gender can have very high levels of morphological complexity, especially where gender is coexponential with case as in many Indo-European languages. If languages with gender are complex overall, apart from their gender, then gender can be regarded as an epiphenomenon of overall language complexity that tends to arise ...
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Logvinova N., Russian linguistics 2026 Vol. 50 Article 11
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Gorina O. G., Kucherenko S., Larisa K. et al., St. Petersburg: Asterion, 2026.
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Bulchenko N. V., INTERaction. INTERview. INTERpretation 2026 Vol. 18 No. 1 P. 127–145
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Kotelnikov M., Новое литературное обозрение 2026 № 1 С. 313–318
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Kasatkina A., Этнографическое обозрение 2024 № 6 С. 23–40
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Andreeva A. S., Omelchenko E. L., Pavel S. Sorokin, Young 2025 Vol. 33 No. 3 P. 278–295
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high-risk political climate, young Russians turn to prefiguration: they embody the
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