Constraining gender assignment rules

Language Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-32

  Thornton, Anna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basic level terms; Conflicts in gender assignment; Gender assignment; Italian; Semantic rules for gender assignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 55949101568     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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