Original scientific paper

Sex and Gender in Croatian and other Languages

Peter M. Hill ; Institut für Slavistik, Universität Hamburg/College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra

Abstract

Gender is a grammatical category in most European languages, to be more precise, in the Indo-European languages. Gender of animate nouns is assumed to coincide with sex, but there are many exceptions, as we will see. In this article I deal with a number of different languages in order to demonstrate the cross-linguistic significance of this category.

Keywords

sex & gender; Croatian; semantics of grammar; feminine agentives

Hrčak ID:

143274

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/143274

Publication date:

10.8.2015.

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