Losing the Feminine Gender in the Norwegian Dialect of Voss
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19477666 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristin Nordbø Haug (University of Oslo), K Haug (University of Oslo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 135-164 |
| Publication date | 2026-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Germanic Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-5427 • E-ISSN: 1475-3014 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1470542726100221 |
| OpenAlex | W7155802257 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
The article reports on a study of the feminine gender in a Western dialect of Norway, using a production experiment eliciting the use of indefinite articles, possessives, adjectives, and the definite suffix. The participants (n=64) are of three age groups: children, adolescents, and adults. The results show that while the feminine gender is stable in the language of the adults, it is becoming vulnerable in the language of the children and adolescents. The main tendency is that feminine gender markers are being replaced with masculine markers. I argue that the innovations are interconnected and not random, and that numerous gender cues do not necessarily make the system more stable
Doing gender · Femininity · Language and gender · Norwegian · Gender Studies in Language · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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Gender Assignment in Six North Scandinavian Languages
Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects
On the relation between gender and declension
Language change and the loss of feminine gender
The loss of inflection as grammar complication
Gender
Frequency and economy in the acquisition of variable word order
A Course in Modern Linguistics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |