Gender and Noun Classification
Edited by Éric Mathieu, Myriam Dali, and Gita Zareikar
Author Information
Eric 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.
Contributors:
Paolo Acquaviva, University College Dublin
Solveiga Armoskaite, University of Rochester
Danniel da Silva Carvalho, Federal University of Bahia
Myriam Dali, University of Ottawa
Rose-Marie Dechaine, University of British Columbia
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri, Mohammed V University Rabat
Clarissa Forbes, University of Toronto
Christopher Hammerly, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Maria Kouneli, New York University
Ruth Kramer, Georgetown University
Ivona Kučerova, McMaster University
Eric Mathieu, University of Ottawa
Conor McDonough Quinn, University of Southern Maine
Phoevos Panagiotidis, University of Cyprus
Gita Zareikar, University of Ottawa