Table of contents
List of Contributorsvii
Introductionix
Part I. Number and Gender Systems Across Languages
1. Noun Classification Systems
Noun Class as Number in Swahili3
Deixis and Noun-Classification in Pilagá and Beyond31
2. Number Systems
Number in the English Substantive59
From Number to Gender, from Dual to Virile: Bridging Cognitive Categories73
The Dual Number in Hebrew: Grammar or Lexicon, or Both?87
3. Gender Systems
The Acategorial Lexicon and the Pairing Strategies: A Critical Account of Inherent Gender in Spanish123
Grammatical and Lexical Behavior in the Development of the Spanish Third-Person Clitics159
The Grammar of English Gender185
Recasting Animacy: The Codification of Perceptual Distinctions in Language205
Part II. Verb Systems and Parts of Speech Across Languages
1. Tense and Aspect
Eventuality Classification: Meaning and Use of Spanish Simple Past Tenses227
Resultativeness: Constructions with Phrasal Verbs in Focus255
2. Parts of Speech
Complex -er Nominals: Where Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Meet?291
Modern Hebrew Adverbials: Between Syntactic Class and Lexical Category333
Name Index353
Subject Index361
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