SIMILARITY AND CONTIGUITY OF FORM AND MEANING: A PARADIGM OF GRAMMATICAL GENDER CHANGE IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES

Authors

Eve A. Ross, Brigham Young University
Dr. Cynthia L. Hallen, Brigham Young University

Keywords

grammatical gender, romance languages, traditional grammar

College

Humanities

Department

Linguistics and English Language

Abstract

Gender in language is currently a hot topic in linguistics and related fields. One somewhat neglected branch of this subject is grammatical gender. Grammatical gender refers to the gender of a word that does not correspond to the gender of the real world object the word represents. Grammatical gender does not exist in English, but it does exist in all of the Romance languages. For example, the French word for “month” is masculine, even though months themselves are not masculine.

Recommended Citation

Ross, Eve A. and Hallen, Dr. Cynthia L. (2013) "SIMILARITY AND CONTIGUITY OF FORM AND MEANING: A PARADIGM OF GRAMMATICAL GENDER CHANGE IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 892.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/892