La asignación del género de los anglicismos en Español
The assignment of the genre of Anglicisms in Spanish

Summary/Abstract: Modern English does not distinguish the grammatical gender of nouns. The Spanish language has two grammatical genders: masculine and feminine. What happens to Anglicisms that enter Spanish? In this paper we intend to analyze the criteria regarding gender assignment of anglicisms in Spanish either by lexical similarity, by semantic or morphological analogy or by determining the natural gender of the word. Our research is based on the analysis of a corpus of anglicisms taken from the Spanish and Latin American electronic press. We analysed, during the year 2007, four newspapers in electronic format, published in three states from Latin America and from Spain: El Universal – Mexico, El Tiempo -Columbia; La Nación – Argentina and El País – Spain.

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