GRAMMATICAL GENDER AND LINGUISTIC LOANING: FEMININE GENDER ASSIGNMENT IN ITALIAN ANGLICISMS Cover Image

GRAMATIČKI ROD I JEZIČKO POZAJMLJIVANJE: ANGLICIZMIMI ŽENSKOG RODA U ITALIJANSKOM JEZIKU
GRAMMATICAL GENDER AND LINGUISTIC LOANING: FEMININE GENDER ASSIGNMENT IN ITALIAN ANGLICISMS

Author(s): Mila Samardžić
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Morphology, Comparative Linguistics, Evaluation research
Published by: Filološki fakultet, Nikšić
Keywords: grammatical gender; nouns; loan words; Italian; English;

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the problem of gender assignment of loan words from predominantly isolating languages (such as English) in languages with (partly) flexible morphology (such as Italian). The English as a donor language does not have grammatical gender, whereas in recipient language (Italian) it is obligatory. How to assign the gender to English loans in Italian if the loan word does not indicate a living being scilicet does not have the natural gender?

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 27
  • Page Range: 161-175
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Serbian