Remarks on the aspect of grammatical gender.

This paper aims to discuss the function of grammatical gender in natural languages. From a review of classical works on the origin of gender in Indo-European languages and the nominal aspect partition proposed by Rijkhoff (1991), it is assumed that the marking of grammatical gender determines differ...

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Main Authors: Carvalho, Danniel, Brito, Dorothy, Farias, Jair
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba 2020
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/racc/article/view/25859
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Summary:This paper aims to discuss the function of grammatical gender in natural languages. From a review of classical works on the origin of gender in Indo-European languages and the nominal aspect partition proposed by Rijkhoff (1991), it is assumed that the marking of grammatical gender determines differences of perspectivization in nouns, based on the hypothesis that gender and number marking are two sides of the same aspectual feature SET. We conclude that the gender marking realization enables more individualized readings of objects, which may be generic or particularized, which was illustrated by a number of languages from distinct families.