Semantic Features and Gender Dynamics in Cantabrian Spanish  

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HOLMQUIST, JONATHAN CARL

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 33 no. 1 (1991), page 57-80.
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This study focuses on a lexical data set drawn from Cantabrian Spanish and consisting of paired nouns distinguished by contrasting masculine and feminine gender endings. Although linguistic gender in European languages is thought to be based primarily on convention, the study suggests that gender usage in the dialectal data is facultative (i.e., open to conscious aware- ness and meaningful manipulation). Furthermore, it is argued that gender assignment, described here in reference to a set of binary semantic features, is a marking process in which the feminine alternative is commonly unmarked. Finally, corroborative evidence for semantic features discussed is suggested to be present in folk poetry and humor also originating in the Cantabrian Mountain region of northern Spain.

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