This volume explores the many ways by which natural languages categorize nouns into genders or classes. A noun may belong to a given class because of its logica

This volume explores the many ways by which natural languages categorize nouns into genders or classes. A noun may belong to a given class because of its logica

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas

The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and develop

First published in 1988, this book explores the grammatical loss of gender in English. It demonstrates that from the end of the Old English period, there was a