The origin of the Proto-Indo-European gender system: Typological considerations

Folia Linguistica

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 435-464

  Luraghi, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agreement; Genders vs. classifiers; Number of genders; Origin of gender systems; Proto Indo European; Topic worthiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054903878     PISSN: 01654004     EISSN: 16147308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/flin.2011.016     Document Type: Article

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