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Studies in African Linguistics, 1987 Gender in Chichewa is described as a complete system. First the basic data on gender agreement are presented and it is shown how the available agreement markers correlate with the noun genders (and how the system has changed in the recent past).
Greville G. Corbett, Alfred D. Mtenje
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Gender agreement on adverbs in Spanish [PDF]
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2008 In this article we explore the exceptional gender agreement of the Spanish adverb mucho (‘much’), when it modifies comparative adjectives inside DPs that contain a particular type of noun (as in muchafem mejor intenciónfem, ‘much better intention’). This
Antonio Fábregas, Isabel Pérez
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Gender Agreement Mismatches in Heritage Greek
Languages, 2020 This paper investigates gender agreement mismatches between nominal expressions and the targets of agreement they control in two groups (adults and adolescents) of Heritage Greek speakers in the USA.
Artemis Alexiadou +3 more
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Gender agreement hierarchy in common gender and epicene nouns in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 Gender is a grammatical category defined as an abstract morphosyntactic feature of nouns reflected in characteristics of associated words (i.e. agreement) (Hockett, 1958; Corbett, 1991).
Anastasiia Ogneva
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No Gender in ‘Gender Agreement’: On Declension Classes and Gender in Serbo-Croatian
Balcania et Slavia, 2021 The present paper argues for a view of gender agreement without either grammatical or natural gender being represented as syntactic features. Rather than deriving declension classes in terms of realisation, I postulate them as the only relevant feature ...
Boban Arsenijević
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Clasificación nominal, concordancia y pronombres [PDF]
Estudios de Lingüística, 2000 This work revises some properties of gender and noun classes, within the broader phenomena of noun classification. The main points of the paper are: 1) the distinction of grammatical noun classification from lexical classification of referents;
José María García-Miguel Gallego
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Linguistics, 2018 Person and gender are typical agreement features within the clause, and crosslinguistically they are frequently part of one and the same agreement system and even expressed through the same morphological exponents.
Diana Forker
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Influence of L1 Properties and Proficiency on the Acquisition of Gender Agreement
Journal of Language and Education, 2018 This research investigates the influence of L1 properties and proficiency level on the acquisition of the Spanish gender agreement system. French and English-speaking learners of Spanish participated in the study.
Pierre-Luc Paquet
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Beyond gender stereotypes in language comprehension: self sex-role descriptions affect the brain’s potentials associated with agreement processing [PDF]
, 2015 We recorded Event-Related Potentials to investigate differences in the use of gender information during the processing of reflexive pronouns. Pronouns either matched the gender provided by role nouns (such as “king” or “engineer”) or did not. We compared
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Morphological transparency and markedness matter in heritage speaker gender processing: an EEG study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The present study investigated the qualitative nature of grammatical gender knowledge and processing in heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish living in the United States.
Alicia Luque +9 more
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