Di Garbo, Francesca (General Linguistics (Department of Linguistics)) http://su.avedas.com/converis/ws/public/feed/simple/atom/Person/4524/Project 2011-09-12T14:08:55Z 2011-09-12T14:08:55Z Francesca Di Garbo http://su.avedas.com/converis/project/90 2011-09-12T14:08:55Z 2011-09-12T14:08:55Z

The main purpose of this project is to carry out a typological investigation of the interrelations among three grammatical domains: gender, number and evaluative markers. Cross-linguistic evidence of the ways in which such grammatical domains interact with each other both synchronically and diachronically will be used for formulating possible typological generalizations on the function and the semantic motivations behind these phenomena. As the phenomena under investigation are frequently geographically and genealogically constrained, the documentation of fairly unrelated languages of the world will be combined with in depth studies of individual linguistic areas and families, with the main focus on the African languages.

Francesca Di Garbo 2011-09-12T14:08:55Z