Coup d’œil sur la catégorie du genre grammatical dans le français actuel
A look on the category of grammatical gender in current French

Summary/Abstract: This presentation aims to contemplate the gender of nouns in the French language and, in particular, to highlight a rather unusual aspect of French morphology, namely the presence (permissible or not) of the neutral gender (present in the tiny class of androgynous words).To achieve its aim, the presentation draws a parallel with other languages with which French is historically related (Italian, Spanish).Particular attention was paid to the comparison with Romanian, a romance and Balkan language where this third gender is represented both spectacularly and in an original fashion. There are also sporadic and brief references to the didactic implications that may result from faulty logic within a language, and from the imbalance between two languages with regards to their genders.

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