The Third Gender: Studies in the Origin and History of Germanic Grammatical Gender

by Frederick W. Schwink

The Third Gender treats the history and development of grammatical gender from Indo-European to Germanic and into the daughter languages. Grammatical gender has hitherto received only peripheral attention in histories of the Germanic languages. This relative neglect is unfortunate, for this nominal category holds the key to understanding the massive transformations that have occurred in the nominal systems of all the Indo-European languages, which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3825314154
• ISBN13: 9783825314156
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
• Length: 118 Pages