Gender Alternation in Ambiguous Spanish Nouns: Historical Overview
This volume offers an overview of the major historical changes in ambiguously gendered Spanish nouns. Starting with gendered Latin cases, it analyzes gender transformation patterns in Spanish. By focusing on those nouns that do not show the consistent suffixal –o/–a alternation for masculine and feminine, this book studies the irregularities and distinctions which made these nouns unique from the perspective of grammatical gender. Why certain inanimate nouns like mano or día did not conform to the typical binary word endings of –o/–a is the point of departure for this research.
It also studies the evolution of gender hybridism in inanimate nouns that have kept both the masculine and feminine forms due to evolutionary reasons, such as el arte/las artes, el/la almíbar, el/la azúcar, los/las lentes, el/la mar, el/la pringue, among others. By reviewing modern gender variations in words such as bombillo/bombilla, cerillo/cerilla, manito/manita, moño/moña, sabático/sabática, el/la armazón, el/la interrogante, el/la maratón, el/la parálisis, el/la pijama, el/la quiche, el/la sartén, el/la sauna, el/la tanga, el/la vodka, this volume examines how important regional and sociolinguistic layers intersect to explain cross-dialectal alternation of gender in nouns.
This research aims to present the history of the alternation of these variants with masculine/feminine ambiguity that the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) itself has described in its modern dictionary editions.
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Fantastic Creatures in Italian Literature: From the Age of Dante to Modernity
This volume explores the mysterious relationship between imagination and creatures—be they animals or hybrids— through the field of Italian literary history from its origins through the early modern period.
Animals and fantastic beings have become transfer figures, charged with signifying and expressing symbolic moments and emotional states. Some of these creatures have achieved such fame that they have become true literary tropes. The essays gathered in this volume explore the allegorical, cultural, or philosophical significance that specific creatures have assumed in the works of some of the most important authors of the Italian premodern tradition, from Chiaro Davanzati, through Dante and Boccaccio, all the way to Leopardi. Though grounded in different genres and historical contexts, each essay reveals how the animal or demonic figure becomes a site of philosophical reflection.
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