The geography of gender change: Pronominal and adnominal gender in Flemish dialects of Dutch

Language Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 192-205

  De Vogelaer, Gunther ^a   De Sutter, Gert ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Flemish; Geography of linguistic change; Grammatical gender; Resemanticization; Semantic gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449293335     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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