Gender maintenance and loss in Totenmålet, English, and other major Germanic varieties

Trudgill, Peter

doi:10.1075/la.202.07tru

In:In Search of Universal Grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque
Edited by Terje Lohndal
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 202] 2013
► pp. 77–108

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Gender maintenance and loss in Totenmålet, English, and other major Germanic varieties

Peter Trudgill | University of Agder

Published online: 17 January 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.202.07tru

I Bergen på hansatida var det nær kontakt mellom to svært like språk, gammalnorsk og mellomlågtysk. Begge desse språka hadde tre genus ... i substantiv. Resultatet av denne kontakten var eit språk, eller snarare ein dialekt, med to genus (Jan Terje Faarlund 2004)

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