A pronominal view of gender agreement

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• 作者：Jenny Audring ^{j.audring@hum.leidenuniv.nl}
• 关键词：Gender ; Agreement ; Pronouns ; Hybrid ; Dutch
• 刊名：Language Sciences
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：January, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：35
• 期：Complete
• 页码：32-46
• 全文大小：479 K

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In modern linguistic theory, grammatical genders are seen as agreement classes. Agreement is the primary evidence for how many genders a language has and which nouns belong to which gender. Yet, agreement behaviour is not always straightforward: languages show inconsistencies, mismatches and variation. This article focuses on gender agreement on pronouns, the most problematic of all agreement targets. With the help of data from modern spoken Dutch, a language that abounds in pronominal mismatches and variation, theoretical assumptions about gender and agreement are discussed, in particular the notion ¡°hybrid¡±.