Table of Contents

1: Éric Mathieu: Humans, gods, and demons
Part I. Gender and partition
2: Rose-Marie Déchaine: Partitioning the nominal domain: The convergence of morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
3: Paolo Acquaviva: Categorization as noun construction: Gender, number, and entity types
Part II. Locus of gender
4: Abdelkader Fassi Fehri: Multiple facets of constructional Arabic Gender and 'functional universalism' in the DP
5: Christopher Hammerly: Limiting gender
6: Ivona Kučerová: The double life of gender and its structural consequences: A case study from Standard Italian
7: Danniel da Silva Carvalho: On gender and agreement in Brazilian Portuguese
8: Ruth Kramer: A novel kind of gender syncretism
9: Phoevos Panagiotidis: (Grammatical) gender troubles and the gender of pronouns
Part III. Morphosemantic noun classification
10: Clarissa Forbes: Number, names, and animacy: Nominal classes and plural interactions in Gitksan
11: Maria Kouneli: Plural marking on mass nouns: Evidence from Greek
12: Conor McDonough Quinn: Productivity vs. predictability: Evidence for the syntax and semantics of Animate gender in four Northeastern-area Algonquian languages
13: Solveiga Armoskaite: How to phraseologize nominal number
References
Index

About the Author

Éric Mathieu is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on French (Modern and Old) and the Algonquian language Ojibwe. His work has appeared in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Lingua, and Probus, and he is the co-editor, with Robert Truswell, of Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax (OUP, 2017). Myriam
Dali is a PhD student at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include the syntax and semantics of number and gender, the structure of the DP, the singulative, and the diachronic evolution of number marking systems. She has recently worked on
the competition between plural forms in Tunisian Arabic. Her work has been published in Lingvisticae Investigationes and she has a book in preparation with John Benjamins. Gita Zareikar is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include the syntax and semantics of bare nominals and number interpretation in general number languages. She focuses on the syntax of noun phrases and more specifically on the evolution of classifiers in non-numeral-classifier
languages. She has recently been working on telicity and viewpoint aspect and its interaction with number and specificity. Her work has been published in Linguistic Variation and in the conference proceedings of
NELS 46 and CLA 2015.