Naujas Zvilgsnis j lietuviy kalbos daiktavardziy gimines kategorija
A new look at the category of nominal gender in Lithuanian

Summary/Abstract: he article deals with the interrelationship between morphology and semantics as factors defining the grammatical gender of Lithuanian nouns and its syntactic manifestations. Gender, as a grammatical category, is defined in terms of inflectional paradigms and agreement features. Most Lithuanian nouns are not inflected for gender but exist in one gender form. Human nouns denoting occupations as well as agent nouns are usually inflected for gender. The gender of indeclinable nouns (usually of foreign origin) is based either on their natural gender or on convention. Lithuanian also has nouns whose morphological and semantic gender do not coincide. In the case of human (or animate) nouns, agreement is usually determined semantically. Certain agent nouns and nouns denoting occupations allow both semantic and formal agreement.

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