Facultative Animacy in Polish
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19147145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oscar E Swan (University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Issue | 606 |
| Pages | 44-44 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Carl Beck papers in Russian and East European studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0889-275X • E-ISSN: 2163-839X |
| Publisher | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5195/cbp.1988.104 |
| OpenAlex | W2076469963 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
INTRODUCTION. 'Grammatical' gender is a largely semantically empty noun trait whose existence is typically revealed through the triggering of agreement rules on the part of items in a sentence with which the noun is in construction. For example, the fact that the Latin word res is feminine in gender requires that the modifying adjective public- take the feminine ending -a. 'Natural' gender refers to perceptual categories with which people tend to view reality- male, female, animate, concrete, abstract, and so onwhich may have means of formal expression in a language. Present-day Polish provides an illustration of the process by which a natural gender can become "grammaticized" by the extension of a formal marker of natural gender to nouns outside the range of the natural gender category, making the feature referentially unpredictable. In Polish, the Genitive=Accusative feature of masculine nouns, traditionally a sign of referential animacy, is being applied more and more to concrete nouns of all sorts, gradually turning the category 'animate' from a natural into a purely grammatical gender designation
Adjective · Animacy · Grammatical Gender · Linguistics · Noun · Perception · Sentence · Gender Studies in Language · History · Language and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |