In many other languages, especially the Romance languages (such as French, Spanish, and Italian), a large number of nouns are coded as being either feminine or masculine. This used to be the case in Old English as well, but in modern English only certain nouns that describe a person who...
In many other languages, especially the Romance languages (such as French, Spanish, and Italian), a large number of nouns are coded as being either feminine or masculine. This used to be the case in Old English as well, but in modern English only certain nouns that describe a person who...
The study investigates gender inflection distribution in compounds withcapo- compared to other nouns (i.e.,occupations traditionally performed by women, by men, and the word capo in isolation), exploring the interplay of social, etymological and morphological factors. 192 native Italian speakers ...
[uncountable] a set of grammatical categories applied to nouns, membership in a particular category being shown by the form of the noun itself or the choice of words that refer to or modify it:Gender is often correlated in part with sex or animateness, as in the choice ofhe to replace ...
In Italian, epicene nouns (e.g., vittima, victim) have grammatical gender, whereas bigender nouns (e.g., assistente, assistant) do not have grammatical gender but instead acquire it from the context in which they occur. We devised three different types of context: incongruent contexts (i.e...
In the present investigation, Italian–Spanish bilinguals were instructed to name pictures in L2 (Experiments 1 and 2) or to translate words from L1 to L2 (Experiment 3), producing either the bare noun or the noun phrase (article+noun). Half of the nouns had the same gender in the two ...
Across languages, such effects are found when the language allows for easy mapping between gender of nouns and sex of human referents (Italian) but not when the mapping is less transparent (German). A final experiment provided further constraints: These effects during processing arise at a ...
Gender, in language, a phenomenon in which the words of a certain part of speech, usually nouns, require the agreement, or concord, through grammatical marking (or inflection), of various other words related to them in a sentence. In languages that exhib
An analysis of Italian and Luganda nominals reveals that the feature gender/class, in addition to its inflectional role in triggering agreement, has a marked derivational nature. Gender/class morphemes are used to derive nouns from non... Ferrari,Franca 被引量: 41发表: 2005年 Some empirical ...
Or why the term for the ocean is neuter in German (das Meer), feminine in French (la mer), and masculine in Italian (it mare'[l) If gender serves no sys- tematic semantic function, why do these languages con- tinue to mark gender on nouns and most of their modi- fiers? This ...