I-IV -- Contents -- Preface -- Gender: New light on an old category. An introduction -- Part 1: Approaches to gender -- Gender classification and the inflectional system of German nouns -- Gender in North Germanic: A diasystematic and functional approach -- Default genders -- Animacy and the notion of semantic gender -- Gender assignment revisited -- Proper names and gender in Swedish -- Reorganization of a gender system: The Central Italian neuters -- Gender in Old High German -- Classifiers versus genders and noun classes: A case study in Vietnamese -- Gender in Teop (Bougainville, Papua New Guinea) -- Gender and number in acquisition -- Verbal classification and number: A case study in Navajo (Athapaskan/Na-Dene) -- Nominal abstracts and gender in Modern German: A "quantitative" approach towards the function of gender -- On the function of gender -- German gender in children's second language acquisition -- Part 2: Manifestations of gender -- How many gender categories are there in Swedish? -- Gender categories in early English grammars: Their message to the modern grammarian -- Elementary gender distinctions -- Grammatical gender and its development in Classical Arabic -- Gender in French: A diachronic perspective -- On the phonology of gender in Modern German -- Noun classification in African languages -- Grammatical gender from east to west -- Inflectional classes, morphological restructuring, and the dissolution of Old English grammatical gender -- Norm versus use: On gender in Polish -- Use and misuse of gender in Czech -- On gender assignment in Russian -- The changing system of grammatical gender in the Swedish dialects of Nyland, Finland -- Name index -- Language index -- Subject index