Chapter 2. Gender in nouns

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Chapter 2
Gender in nouns

Published online: 8 March 2024

Article outline

2.1General overview of the chapter
2.2Classifiers and gender: Empirical behaviour
- 2.2.1Gender is not biological sex
- 2.2.2Gender values and idiosyncrasies
- 2.2.3Gender and ellipsis
- 2.2.4Is gender inflectional or derivational?
- 2.2.5Gender and gender marking
- 2.2.6Conclusion: Nine groups of nouns in Spanish according to gender
2.3Analysis (1): The classifier area
- 2.3.1Contexts that isolate the classifier from gender proper
- 2.3.2The three classifiers in Spanish
- 2.3.3No more classifiers
2.4Analysis (2): The gender proper area
- 2.4.1Fem as ‘female’
- 2.4.2Masculine as neuter
2.5Deriving the nine classes of nouns in Spanish
- 2.5.1Groups 1, 2 and 3
- 2.5.2Groups 4 and 5
- 2.5.3Group 6
- 2.5.4Group 7
- 2.5.5Groups 8 and 9