Gender Assignment in Danish, Swedish and Norwegian: A Comparison of the Status of Assignment Criteria
The paper deals with gender assignment of English loanwords in Danish, Swedish and Norwegian. The following assignment criteria have been analysed: semantic (animate, mass), phonological (number of syllables, homonymy), and morphological (inflection, suffixation, deverbal monosyllables, compounds)....
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| Language: | English |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2004-01-01
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| Series: | Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/2 |