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dc.contributor.authorRodina, Yulia
dc.contributor.authorWestergaard, Marit
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-16T11:21:57Z
dc.date.available2021-09-16T11:21:57Z
dc.date.issued2021-07-28
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we investigate an ongoing change in the grammatical gender system of Norwegian. Previous research has shown that the feminine form of the indefinite article is quickly disappearing from several dialects, which has led to claims that the feminine gender is being lost from the language. We have carried out a study of the status of the feminine in possessives across five age groups of speakers of the Tromsø dialect. Our findings show that the prenominal possessives are affected by the change to the same extent as the indefinite article, while forms that have been argued not to be exponents of gender (the definite suffix and the postnominal possessive) are generally unaffected.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRodina Y, Westergaard M. Grammatical Gender and Declension Class in Language Change: A Study of the Loss of Feminine Gender in Norwegian. Journal Of Germanic Linguistics. 2021;33(3):235-263en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1924897
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S1470542719000217
dc.identifier.issn1470-5427
dc.identifier.issn1475-3014
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/22563
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherCambrigde University Pressen_US
dc.relation.journalJournal Of Germanic Linguistics
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010en_US
dc.titleGrammatical Gender and Declension Class in Language Change: A Study of the Loss of Feminine Gender in Norwegianen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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