Gender shifts in Germanic and Slavic: semantic motivation for neuter?

Lingua

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1418-1440

  Steinmetz, Donald ^a  

^a AUGSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Germanic; Grammatical gender; Neuter gender; Slavic

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744974293     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2004.06.014     Document Type: Article

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