Wie generisch ist das generische Maskulinum? Über Genus und Sexus im Deutschen
- 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.
Author: | Ewa Trutkowski |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-467843 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.59.2018.437 |
ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
Parent Title (German): | Im Mittelpunkt Deutsch / ed. by André Meinunger |
Publisher: | Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | German |
Date of Publication (online): | 2018/06/15 |
Year of first Publication: | 2018 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2018/06/21 |
Tag: | Genuszuweisung |
GND Keyword: | Genus |
Volume: | 59 |
Page Number: | 14 |
First Page: | 83 |
Last Page: | 96 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 433368861 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 43 Deutsch, germanische Sprachen allgemein / 430 Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 59 = Im Mittelpunkt Deutsch |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-467744 |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |