A pronominal view of gender agreement  

Oleh:

Audring, Jenny

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 35 (2013), page 32-46.
Topik: Gender Agreement Pronouns Hybrid Dutch
Fulltext: vol. 35 January, 2013. p. 32-46.pdf (479.63KB)

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In modern linguistic theory, grammatical genders are seen as agreement classes. Agreement is the primary evidence for how many genders a language has and which nouns belong to which gender. Yet, agreement behaviour is not always straightforward: languages show inconsistencies, mismatches and variation. This article focuses on gender agreement on pronouns, the most problematic of all agreement targets. With the help of data from modern spoken Dutch, a language that abounds in pronominal mismatches and variation, theoretical assumptions about gender and agreement are discussed, in particular the notion ‘‘hybrid’’.

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