The ‘Biological Species’ Meaning of Binominal Genus Pairs of Some Domestic Animals in Russian Dialects and Literary Language

The article is devoted to presenting results of studies on coordination between genus, grammatical and biological gender in nomination of domestic animals. It is stated that binominal pairs of the domestic animal names baran -ovtsa, kozel -koza, kot -koshka are used in the literary Russian language with some distinction: a masculine gender noun is used for denoting a masculine animal kind, a feminine gender noun can point to a feminine animal kind, besides it could serve a biological species name without animal gender distinction. In pairs kon -loshad, pes -sobaka the feminine gender names are referred to species hyperonyms, whereas the masculine gender names -to a masculine genus. In Russian dialects the coordination between genus, grammatical and biological gender in the animal nominations under studies demonstrate either close resemblance to the norms of the literary language, or some variations, in particular, in any of the above mentioned binominal pairs the masculine gender nouns might be referred to a general species name thus deviating from the norm 'to denote a biogender of an animal', where as feminine animal nouns point to both general and specific feminine kinds

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