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The Fine-grained Structure of the Lexical Area: Gender, appreciatives and nominal suffixes in Spanish
Antonio Fábregas
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 39] 2024
► pp. 44–84

Chapter 2
Gender in nouns

Article outline
  • 2.1General overview of the chapter
  • 2.2Classifiers and gender: Empirical behaviour
    • 2.2.1Gender is not biological sex
    • 2.2.2Gender values and idiosyncrasies
    • 2.2.3Gender and ellipsis
    • 2.2.4Is gender inflectional or derivational?
    • 2.2.5Gender and gender marking
    • 2.2.6Conclusion: Nine groups of nouns in Spanish according to gender
  • 2.3Analysis (1): The classifier area
    • 2.3.1Contexts that isolate the classifier from gender proper
    • 2.3.2The three classifiers in Spanish
    • 2.3.3No more classifiers
  • 2.4Analysis (2): The gender proper area
    • 2.4.1Fem as ‘female’
    • 2.4.2Masculine as neuter
  • 2.5Deriving the nine classes of nouns in Spanish
    • 2.5.1Groups 1, 2 and 3
    • 2.5.2Groups 4 and 5
    • 2.5.3Group 6
    • 2.5.4Group 7
    • 2.5.5Groups 8 and 9