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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783034309271
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-0343-0927-1
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Erscheinungstermin: 26.04.2016
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2016
- Serie: Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 595 g
- Seiten: 397
- Format (B x H x T): 150 x 225 x 23 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
