Gender and inflectional class

Below you will find an overview of topics that will be treated during the course, a course schedule, a program for the conference on Saturday, and a reading list.

Content of the course:

Gender:

Theoretical aspects of systems of grammatical gender
the relationship between sexbased gender systems and other forms of noun classification
default hierarchies in gender systems,
morphological manifestations of gender, 
the semantic content of gender classes, e.g. inanimate feminine nouns

Inflectional class:

Intoduction: Some notions of inflectional morphology
What are inflectional classes (ICes)?
Motivation of ICes: Strict and preferential class determination
IC typology: How are different IC systems based?
ICes in the inflectional system: Paradigm structure and metaclasses; unmarked and marked IC membership and their lexical representation
ICes and change: IC transitions; development of 'mixed classes'; disappearence of ICes.
Emergence of ICes: I. The 'long way': From semantic classification to morphological classification; II. The 'short way': Morphological classification as result of phonological change.

Course scedule:

Mon 22	13.00-14.45	Inflectional classes	Wurzel
	15.15-17.00	Gender	Steinmetz
Tue 23	10.15-12.00	Gender	Steinmetz
	13.15-15.00	Inflectional classes	Wurzel
Wed 24	10.15-12.00	Inflectional classes	Wurzel
	13.15-15.00	Gender	Steinmetz
Thu 25	10.15-12.00	Gender	Steinmetz
	13.15-15.00	Inflectional classes	Wurzel
Fri 26	10.15-12.00	Inflectional classes	Wurzel
	13.15-15.00	Gender	Steinmetz
Sat 27 09.00-17.00	Conference
	Evening		Dinner

Program for the conference on saturday:

09.00 - 10.00 Hans Olav Enger:: Gender and declension class in Scandinavian: observations, questions and speculations

10.15 - 11.00 Trond Trosterud:: A set of gender assignment rules for Norwegian

11.15 - 12.00 Curt Rice:: Optimizing gender

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch break

13.00 - 13.45 Tore Nesset:: Ideology in Inflection? - Sexism in a Russian Declensional Class

14.00 - 14.45 Bettina Jobin:: Personal markers and gender in German and Swedish studied in parallel and translation corpora
15.00 -16.00 Dagmar Bittner:: Gender and the other nominal categories in German

Reading list:

Gender:

Steinmetz, D. 1986. Two principles and some rules for gender in

German: inanimate nouns. Word 37: 189-217. (Skulle helst leses før

kurset ...)

Steinmetz, D. 1985. Gender in German and Icelandic. In J. Faarlund

(ed.) Germanic Linguistics. Bloomington: Indiana University

Linguistics Club. (deles ut under kurset)

Kopcke, K.M. 1982. Untersuchungen zum Genussystem der deutschen

Gegenwartssprache. Tubingen: Niemeyer. (Especially the part on

specific rules for German.)

Corbett, G. 1991. Gender. CUP. (Especially the part on gender

assignment, som helst skulle leses før kurset.)

Rice, C. & D. Steinmetz 1989. The gender of inanimate nouns in German

and Dutch. Texas Linguistic Forum 31: 157-190.(deles ut under kurset).

Inflectional class:

A. Carstairs (1987), Allomorphy in Inflexion; London: Croom Helm, esp. 24-41; 234-251.

----- (1991), Inflectional classes: Two questions with one answer. In: Plank (1991a), 213-253.

Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrews 1998: Paradimatic Structure: Inflectional Paradigms and Morphological Classes. Andrew Spencer and Arnold Zwicky (eds.)The handbook of Morphology. pp. 322-335. Blackwell publishers. 13 p.

F. Plank (1991a), ed., Paradigms. The Economy of Inflection, Berlin: Mouton des Gruyter.

----- (1991b), Of abundance and scantiness in inflection: A typological prelude. In: PLank (1991a), 1-40.

W.U. Wurzel (1989), Inflectional Morphology and Naturalness, Dordrecht: Kluwer, esp. 112-157.

evt. W.U.Wurzel (1984), Flexionsklassen und Natürlichkeit. Akademie-Verlag, esp. p. 116-172.

----- (1998), Drei Ebenen der Struktur von Flexionsparadigmen. In: R. Fabry, A. Ortmann, T. Parodi (eds.), Models of Inflection, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 225-243.

----- (1999), How are morphologigal properties represented in the lexicon? - From diachrony to synchrony. In: Interdisciplinary Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis, vol. 2/4, 255-265.