Surveys gender across a range of languages. For class use and as a reference resource for students and researchers in linguistics.

Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Gender assignment I: semantic systems -- 3. Gender assignment II: formal systems -- 4. The psycholinguistic status of gender assignment -- 5. Gender agreement -- 6. Establishing the number of genders -- 7. Target genders: syncretism and enforced gender forms -- 8. Hybrid nouns and the agreement hierarchy -- 9. Gender resolution rules -- 10. Generalisations and prospects -- References -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index.