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- Title
A NOTE ON THE LOCUS AND FUNCTION OF FORMAL GENDER.
- Authors
Picallo, M. Carme
- Abstract
This note tries to assess the syntactic locus of grammatical Gender in the nominal structure with evidence mainly drawn from Spanish. Data from ellipsis resolution and its licensing in a variety of contexts, and for different types of syntactic objects, suggest the conjecture that noun classifying devices, such as grammatical Gender, may constitute the inflectional correlate of hierarchically organized, and possibly universal, nominality descriptors. Such descriptors would be coded in the structural space that, under different theoretical proposals, has been labelled as 'lexical phase', 'first phase' or 'little-n' space.
- Subjects
LOANWORDS; GENDER differences in language; ENGLISH grammatical gender; PRONOUNS (Grammar); NUMBER (Grammar); ELLIPSIS (Grammar); SYNTAX (Grammar)
- Publication
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2017, Vol 6, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1893-3211
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7557/1.6.1.4097