One Word, Two Genders : Categorization and Agreement in Dutch Double Gender Nouns EPUB
by Semplicini Chiara Semplicini
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Dutch is a peculiar language in that certain nouns have more than one gender.
This first academic study of double gender nouns (DGNs) in the Dutch language investigates this anomaly.
First assigned a lexicological classification, the DGNs are then analysed contextually by means of a corpus study.
DGNs are shown to be part of a generalized restructuring of Dutch gender as a whole.
No longer a fringe phenomenon in the Dutch gender system, this study shows them to be catalysts in the transition towards a (more) semantic system, a process that is much more advanced than commonly assumed.
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- Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
- Publication Date:09/05/2016
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
- Publication Date:09/05/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9783035398977