Sex and Gender in Croatian and other Languages
Sex and Gender in Croatian and other Languages
Author(s): Peter M. HillSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Croatian Studies Centre
Keywords: sex & gender; Croatian language; semantics of grammar; feminine agentives
Summary/Abstract: Gender is a grammatical category in most European languages, to be more precise, in the Indo-European languages. Gender of animate nouns is assumed to coincide with sex, but there are many exceptions, as we will see. In this article I deal with a number of different languages in order to demonstrate the cross-linguistic significance of this category.
Journal: Croatian Studies Review - Časopis hrvatskih studija
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 10
- Page Range: 085-104
- Page Count: 20