Abstract
Language is one of our most complex cognitive abilities. The MultiGender project will study one linguistic phenomenon, grammatical gender, from a variety of perspectives, with data from various groups of multilinguals speaking languages with different gender systems. Grammatical gender is a category sorting nouns into different classes. For example, in most Norwegian dialects we may identify three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter: en bil ‘a car’, ei bok ‘a book’, and et hus ‘a house’. Some languages have two genders (e.g. Italian), while others have no grammatical gender (e.g. English). Gender is subject to significant variation across the world’s languages, not only with respect to the number of gender classes, but also transparency of gender assignment and relation to other properties (case, definiteness), etc.
MultiGender will bring together world-leading experts from several disciplines of language science, including formal linguistics, processing, multilingualism, acquisition/attrition, and historical language change. The project will focus on three different areas: i) how gender varies across dialects, languages, and multilingual individuals, ii) how gender is acquired in multilingual contexts, and iii) how gender may change due to reduced input and use. MultiGender will be based on a diverse set of methodologies and investigate whether or not grammatical gender is the same category across multiple languages.
Fellows
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Alexiadou, Artemis
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Anderssen, Merete
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Björnsdóttir, Sigríður
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Busterud, Guro
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Corbett, Greville
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Enger, Hans-Olav
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Heiene, Ingrid Marie
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Hopp, Holger
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Johannessen, Janne Bondi
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Klassen, Rachel
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Kramer, Ruth
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Kupisch, Tanja
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Mitrofanova, Natalia
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Polinsky, Maria
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Rodina, Yulia
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Rothman, Jason
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Sekerina, Irina
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Sorace, Antonella
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Åfarli, Tor Anders
Previous events
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21 Apr 202018:00 - 20:00Litteraturhuset, Nedjma Litteraturhuset, Nedjma
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06 Mar 202000:00 - 13:00Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) Centre for Advanced Study (CAS)
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03 Mar - 04 Mar 2020(all day)Hotel Lysebu Hotel Lysebu
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29 Oct - 30 Oct 2019(all day)Quality Hotel Leangkollen Quality Hotel Leangkollen
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23 May - 24 May 2019(all day)Clarion Collection Hotel Gabelshus Clarion Collection Hotel Gabelshus
News
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Alumni Spotlight: Marit Westergaard
02.12.2021 -
Why do some words have gender?
30.03.2020 -
NOK 30 million to research on multilingualism
16.01.2020 -
How are Norwegian dialects changing?
19.12.2019 -
CAS Fellow receives ERC Synergy Grant
14.10.2019 -
Meet the project: Do we really need grammatical gender?
07.10.2019