TY  - CHAP
A1  - Trutkowski, Ewa
T1  - Wie generisch ist das generische Maskulinum? Über Genus und Sexus im Deutschen
T2  - Im Mittelpunkt Deutsch / ed. by André Meinunger
N2  - This paper examines whether gender features (masculine, feminine, neuter) in German have to be interpreted semantically, along their specific gender, or whether they allow for a gender unrelated interpretation. As to this, two experiments with two different classes of nouns (gender marked and sex marked nouns vs. gender marked and sex neutral nouns) were conducted. The first experiment supports the view that in their function as nominal predicates masculine nouns, contrary to feminine (and neuter) nouns, have the widest extension – which confirms the existence of a ‘Generic Masculine’ (Generisches Maskulinum). On the other hand, the second experiment shows that in their function as subjects masculine nouns, contrary to feminine (and neuter) nouns, are the least flexible agreement controllers – hardly allowing for gender mismatches. Thus, masculine nouns behave differently depending on whether they appear as controllers/sources of agreement or as targets of agreement. The findings are supplemented by corpus data.
KW  - Genus
KW  - Genuszuweisung
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46784
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-467843
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 59
SP  - 83
EP  - 96
PB  - Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
CY  - Berlin
ER  -