{"product_id":"gender-from-latin-to-romance","title":"Gender from Latin to Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores grammatical gender in the Romance languages and dialects and its evolution from Latin. Michele Loporcaro investigates the significant diversity found in the Romance varieties in this regard; he draws on data from the Middle Ages to the present from all the Romance languages and dialects, discussing examples from Romanian to Portuguese and crucially also focusing on less widely-studied varieties such as Sursilvan, Neapolitan, and Asturian. The\n\u003cbr\u003einvestigation first reveals that several varieties display more complex systems than the binary masculine\/feminine contrast familiar from modern French or Italian. Moreover, it emerges that traditional\n\u003cbr\u003eaccounts, whereby neuter gender was lost in the spoken Latin of the late Empire, cannot be correct: instead, the neuter gender underwent a range of different transformations from Late Latin onwards, which are responsible for the different systems that can be observed today across the Romance languages. The volume provides a detailed description of many of these systems, which in turns reveals a wealth of fascinating data, such as varieties where 'husbands' are feminine and others where 'wives'\n\u003cbr\u003eare masculine; dialects in which nouns overtly mark gender, but only in certain syntactic contexts; and one Romance variety (Asturian) in which it appears that grammatical gender has split into two\n\u003cbr\u003econcurrent systems.The volume will appeal to linguists from a range of backgrounds, including Romance linguistics, historical linguistics, typology, and morphosyntax, and is also of relevance to those working in sociology, gender studies, and psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46061558038766,"sku":"9780199656547","price":260.06,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780199656547.jpg?v=1736532373","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/gender-from-latin-to-romance","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}