STRUCTURAL PECULARITIES OF NOUNS OF MASCULINE, FEMININE, NEUTER, AND COMMON GENDERS IN ENGLISH LINGUISTICS Cover Image

STRUCTURAL PECULARITIES OF NOUNS OF MASCULINE, FEMININE, NEUTER, AND COMMON GENDERS IN ENGLISH LINGUISTICS
STRUCTURAL PECULARITIES OF NOUNS OF MASCULINE, FEMININE, NEUTER, AND COMMON GENDERS IN ENGLISH LINGUISTICS

Author(s): Natalya Skrytska
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Видавництво ВДНЗ України « Буковинський державний медичний університет »
Keywords: Nouns; Masculine; Feminine; neuter; common genders; English linguistics;

Summary/Abstract: General statement of the problem and its connec-tion with important scientific or practical aims. While grammatical gender was a fully productive inflectional category in Old English, Modern English has a much less pervasive gender system, primarily based on natural gender. The category of gender is oppositional. It is formed by two oppositions related to each other on a hierarchical basis. One opposition functions in the whole set of nouns, dividing them into person (animate, human) nouns and non - person (inanimate, non-human) nouns. The other opposition func-tions in the subset of person nouns only, dividing them into masculine and feminine gender.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 42-45
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: English