The notion of inflection and the expression of nominal gender in Spanish
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20380972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Igor Mel’čuk (0000-0002-4520-0554, Université de Montréal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 736-763 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0378-4177 • E-ISSN: 1569-9978 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/sl.37.4.02mel |
| OpenAlex | W2092282567 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
The paper discusses the morphological status and the function of Spanish nominal endings -o and -a ( ciel + o ‘sky’ vs. caj + a ‘box’); it is shown that both endings, plus the endings -e and -Ø , are inflectional suffixes that mark, however, not the values of an inflectional category (like nominal number or verbal tense), but the values of a feature of the syntactics of the noun — the nominal gender. The ‘nominal gender’ is defined as a cluster concept based on eight properties; it is a particular case of ‘agreement class’ opposed to ‘noun class.’ Some particularities of Spanish nominal gender are examined: its interaction with diminutive suffixes, gender conversion, and its “non-prototypical” character (a parallel is drawn between Spanish nominal genders and noun classes in Fula)
Agreement · Diminutive · Inflection · Linguistics · Nominalization · Noun · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |