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Predicting grammatical gender in Nakh languages: Three methods compared
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2022 The Nakh languages Chechen and Tsova-Tush each have a five-valued gender system: masculine, feminine, and three “neuter” genders named for their singular agreement forms: B, D and J. Gender assignment in languages is generally analysed as being dependent
Jesse Wichers Schreur +3 more
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Études Caribéennes, 2023 Jacques Stephen Alexis takes a sorority approach to the place of women in two of his works: L’Espace d’un cillement and L’Étoile Absinthe. Analyzing questions of desire, couple and domination from the angle of the woman’s duality and the systemic nature ...
Anne Schneider
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Semantic gender assignment regularities in German [PDF]
Brain and Language, 2004 Gender assignment relates to a native speaker's knowledge of the structure of the gender system of his/her language, allowing the speaker to select the appropriate gender for each noun. Whereas categorical assignment rules and exceptional gender assignment are well investigated, assignment regularities, i.e., tendencies in the gender distribution ...
Schwichtenberg, B., Schiller, N.O.
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Gender assignment and gender agreement in advanced French interlanguage: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
, 2001 An analysis of 519 gender errors (out of 9,378 modifiers) in the advanced French interlanguage of 27 Dutch L1 speakers confirms earlier findings that gender assignment and/or agreement remain problematic for learners at all levels.
Dewaele, Jean-Marc, Véronique, D.
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Gender assignment: whose decision is it?
Sri Lanka Journal of Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2012 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/sjdem.v1i1.4203 Sri Lanka Journal of Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism 2011; 1: 51 ...
YA Arundathi Jayasena, KSH de Silva
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A Fork in the Road: Grammatical Gender Assignment to Nouns in Spanish Dialects
Languages, 2023 Spanish nouns are classified as either feminine or masculine. Although some nouns vary depending on their denotation (such as niño ‘male child’ vs. niña ‘female child’), in most cases a fixed gender is assigned.
Florencio Del Barrio de la Rosa
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Gender Assignment and Gender Agreement [PDF]
Morphology, 2008 In research on grammatical gender, assignment and agreement are the two central notions. Genders are defined as systems of agreement classes, and the assignment of nouns to genders is reflected in the agreement they consistently trigger on associated elements. Yet, gender assignment and gender agreement are often discussed quite separately.
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Failed gender agreement in L1 English L2 Spanish: Syntactic or lexical problem?
Glossa, 2021 A recent proposal attributes morphosyntactic issues in L2 to lexical factors (Grüter et al. 2012; Hopp 2013). According to this lexical account, issues with gender agreement are caused by gender assignment issues – a failure to assign a word to a target ...
Alena Kirova, José Camacho
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The development of gender assignment and agreement in English-Greek and German-Greek bilingual children [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this experimental study is to examine the development of Greek gender in bilingual English-Greek and German-Greek children. Four gender production tasks were designed, two targeting gender assignment eliciting determiners and two targeting ...
Argyri, F, Kaltsa, M, Tsimpli, IM
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Neutrales Rufnamengenus zwischen Grammatik und Pragmatik
Linguistik Online, 2021 In numerous German dialects and in Luxembourgish, female first names can take on both feminine and neuter gender agreement, thus leading to gender variation on a paradigmatical level and gender mismatches on a syntactical level.
Simone Busley, Julia Fritzinger
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