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Title:

ONE WORD, TWO GENDERS
CATEGORIZATION AND AGREEMENT IN DUTCH DOUBLE GENDER NOUNS

By:

Chiara Semplicini

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3034309279

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9783034309271

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Publisher:

PETER LANG AG, INTERNATIONALER VERLAG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN

Pub. date:

26 April, 2016

Series:

Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics 38

Pages:

397

Description:

This first academic study of double gender nouns (DGNs) in the Dutch language investigates why certain nouns have more than one gender. DGNs are shown to be part of a generalized restructuring of Dutch gender as a whole, and this study shows them to be catalysts in the transition towards a (more) semantic system.

Synopsis:

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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Switzerland

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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

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