Items for "Germanic languages"

Typologically motivated over- vs. underspecification of gender in Germanic languages

This paper investigates different means of expressing natural gender in personal terms, namely derivational suffixes, different inflectional classes, and the inflection of pronouns, adjectives, and determiners for grammatical gender in the history of Ger-man, English, and Swedish...

Keywords: Germanic languages, typology, morphosyntax, gender, framing