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dc.contributor.authorvan Baal, Yvonne
dc.contributor.authorEik, Ragnhild
dc.contributor.authorSolbakken, Hedda
dc.contributor.authorLohndal, Terje
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-28T08:43:40Z
dc.date.available2024-10-28T08:43:40Z
dc.date.issued2024-10-26
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents a cross-dialectal study of grammatical gender in Norwegian nominal phrases. Specifically, we investigate the decline of the feminine gender in three age groups across seven different dialects. The dialects vary in their morphological richness of gender marking: some dialects traditionally have more distinctive marking of the feminine gender. With an elicited production experiment, we investigate gender marking on the indefinite determiner and the definite suffix. We find that feminine gender is in decline in all dialects, but there are clear differences between the locations and between age groups. The feminine indefinite determiner ei is replaced by the masculine en at different rates and to a different degree in the various dialects. We furthermore find that the feminine definite suffix - a is retained in all locations except for Stavanger. We argue that the decline of the feminine gender can be explained by an interplay between the morphological richness of the given dialect and dialect contact. The former helps to retain the feminine as a separate category, while the latter accelerates the loss of the feminine.en_US
dc.identifier.citationvan Baal YvB, Eik R, Solbakken H, Lohndal T. The decline of feminine gender: a cross-dialectal study of seven Norwegian dialects. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics. 2024;27(9)en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2314955
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10828-024-09155-9
dc.identifier.issn1383-4924
dc.identifier.issn1572-8552
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/35340
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2024 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)en_US
dc.titleThe decline of feminine gender: a cross-dialectal study of seven Norwegian dialectsen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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