In:Agreement in Language Contact: Gender development in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Florian Dolberg
[Studies in Language Companion Series 208] 2019
► pp. 9–78
Chapter 3Gender
Published online: 18 June 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.208.03
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.208.03
Article outline
- 3.1Nature, origin and function of gender
- 3.2Gender in Old and Middle English
- 3.2.1Gender assignment
- 3.2.1.1Nouns with more than one gender
- 3.2.2Gender exponence
- 3.2.1Gender assignment
- 3.3Approaches to English gender development
- 3.3.1The ‘Genuswechsel’ theory
- 3.3.2Formal sources of gender development
- 3.3.3Functional and semantic sources of gender development
- 3.3.4Language contact, language change and gender development
- 3.4Chapter summary
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