LINGUIST List 20.1370: Morphology/Semantics: Petersen: 'Gender Assignment in Modern ...'

LINGUIST List 20.1370

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1. Hjalmar Petersen, Gender Assignment in Modern Faroese

Message 1: Gender Assignment in Modern Faroese
Date: 10-Apr-2009
From: Hjalmar Petersen <hjalmar.petersenuni-hamburg.de>
Subject: Gender Assignment in Modern Faroese
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Institution: Universität Hamburg Program: Department of German Studies Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2009

Author: Hjalmar P. Petersen

Dissertation Title: Gender Assignment in Modern Faroese

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics Morphology Psycholinguistics Semantics
Subject Language(s): Faroese (fao)
Dissertation Director:
Høskuldur Thráinsson Kurt Braunmueller
Dissertation Abstract:

This dissertation is currently the only comprehensive study of genderassignment in a North Germanic language, and it clearly shows that genderis based on rules. The reader is provided with solid evidence taken fromhistorical changes, borrowings and psycholinguistic tests that proves thisrule-based hypothesis. The dissertation treats gender assignment in Faroeseas mainly twofold: semantic assignment and morphological assignment, andthat the Assignment Hierarchy is shown to have some validity, although thereare obvious exceptions. There are six gender markers in morphologicalassignment in addition to negative neuter and nouns denoting sounds. Theserules together with different semantic rules for animate nouns as well asinanimate nouns show that gender divides the lexicon (especially nouns)into classes which governs agreement.

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