Ruth Kramer is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She received her doctorate in 2009 from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the syntax-morphology interface, especially phi features, clitics, and agreement, and she also specializes in the morphosyntax of the Ethiosemitic language Amharic. Her publications include articles in Lingua, Language Sciences, The Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, Syntax, Linguistic Inquiry, and Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Amharic gender system and previous approaches to gender ; 3. An n analysis of gender ; 4. Defining gender ; 5. Case study 1: Two genders, three ns ; 6. Case study 2: Adding an uninterpretable gender feature ; 7. Case study 3: Three genders ; 8. Gender is not on Num: Evidence from Somali and Romanian ; 9. Gender and nominalizations ; 10. The highest gender wins and the interaction of gender and declension class ; 11. Conclusion

Ruth Kramer is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She received her doctorate in 2009 from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the syntax-morphology interface, especially phi features, clitics, and agreement, and she also specializes in the morphosyntax of the Ethiosemitic language Amharic. Her publications include articles in Lingua, Language Sciences, The Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, Syntax, Linguistic Inquiry, and Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Amharic gender system and previous approaches to gender ; 3. An n analysis of gender ; 4. Defining gender ; 5. Case study 1: Two genders, three ns ; 6. Case study 2: Adding an uninterpretable gender feature ; 7. Case study 3: Three genders ; 8. Gender is not on Num: Evidence from Somali and Romanian ; 9. Gender and nominalizations ; 10. The highest gender wins and the interaction of gender and declension class ; 11. Conclusion

Ruth Kramer is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She received her doctorate in 2009 from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the syntax-morphology interface, especially phi features, clitics, and agreement, and she also specializes in the morphosyntax of the Ethiosemitic language Amharic. Her publications include articles in Lingua, Language Sciences, The Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, Syntax, Linguistic Inquiry, and Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Amharic gender system and previous approaches to gender ; 3. An n analysis of gender ; 4. Defining gender ; 5. Case study 1: Two genders, three ns ; 6. Case study 2: Adding an uninterpretable gender feature ; 7. Case study 3: Three genders ; 8. Gender is not on Num: Evidence from Somali and Romanian ; 9. Gender and nominalizations ; 10. The highest gender wins and the interaction of gender and declension class ; 11. Conclusion