Rod imenica koje znače profesiju u ruskom i hrvatskom jeziku
Gender of Nouns Denoting Occupation in the Russian and Croatian Language

Summary/Abstract: Both Russian and Croatian distinguish three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. Sex distinctions determine gender distinctions denoting occupation. However, sex distinction is not always consistently expressed since there are many linguistic and extra linguistic barriers in forming a feminine gender of nouns denoting occupation. In these cases some other markers are used to determine sex distinctions. Russian and Croatian do not use markers with similar frequency. In Russian, there are possibilites of determining the female sex according to occupation, which is related to the stylistic differentiation. In Croatian the possibility of stylistic differentiation is neglected. In this paper some suggestions have been offered in order to determine female sex according to occupation in the Croatian language.

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