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The Category of Person and the Category of Virility

Author(s): Branka Tafra
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Hrvatsko filološko društvo
Keywords: Category of Person; Category of Virility; Croatian language;

Summary/Abstract: The category of virility is not described in Croatian grammars. lt is argued in this article that, besides the West-Slavonic languages, the Croatian language shows this category. This category influences the classification of nominal paradigms in the North-Ćakavian dia lee t and the distribution of numera l word forms in the standard language.

  • Issue Year: 47/1999
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 95-105
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Croatian