TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chiara Semplicini
PY  - 2016
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035308204
TI  - One Word, Two Genders
T2  - Categorization and Agreement in Dutch Double Gender Nouns
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0820-4
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052613
N2  - Dutch is a peculiar language in that certain nouns have more than one gender. This first academic study of double gender nouns (DGNs) in the Dutch language investigates this anomaly. First assigned a lexicological classification, the DGNs are then analysed contextually by means of a corpus study. DGNs are shown to be part of a generalized restructuring of Dutch gender as a whole. No longer a fringe phenomenon in the Dutch gender system, this study shows them to be catalysts in the transition towards a (more) semantic system, a process that is much more advanced than commonly assumed.
KW  - Double Gender Nouns, Dutch, Gender as an Individuation marker
LA  - English
ER  -