Genders and Classifiers
A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Elena I. Mihas
Author Information
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), Tariana (2003), and Manambu (2008) in addition to essays on various typological and areal topics. She is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality (OUP, 2018) and co-editor, with R. M. W. Dixon, of The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology (CUP, 2017). Her other major publications with OUP include Imperatives and Commands (2010), Languages of the Amazon (2012), The Art of Grammar (2014), How Gender Shapes the World (2016) and Serial Verbs (2018).
Elena I. Mihas has been studying Asheninka and Ashaninka varieties of Kampa Arawak of Peru since 2008, and received her PhD in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Upper Perene Narratives of History, Landscape and Ritual (Nebraska University Press, 2014), A Grammar of Alto Perene (Arawak) (Mouton, 2015), and Conversational Structures of Alto Perene (Benjamins, 2017), and of multiple papers on the grammatical aspects of Kampa languages. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, A United States Department of Education National Resource Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Contributors:
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, James Cook University
Junwei Bai, James Cook University
Pier Marco Bertinetto, Scuola Normale Superiore
Luca Ciucci, James Cook University
Paola Cuneo, University of Buenos Aires
Nerida Jarkey, University of Sydney
Hiroko Komatsu, Sophia University
Cristina Messineo, University of Buenos Aires
Elena I. Mihas, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Pilar M. Valenzuela, Chapman University
Nathan M. White, James Cook University
Katarzyna I. Wojtylak, James Cook University