Gender assignment and gender agreement: Evidence from pronominal gender languages

Morphology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-116

  Audring, Jenny ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agreement; Gender; Gender agreement; Gender assignment; Morphology; Pronominal gender; Pronouns; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349208934     PISSN: 18715621     EISSN: 18715656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11525-009-9124-y     Document Type: Article

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