Introduction -- The starting point: gender in Latin -- Grammatical gender in Romance: the mainstream -- Romance gender systems: the fuller picture -- Mass/countness and gender in Asturian -- The older stages of the Romance languages -- Gender from Latin to Romance: a reconstruction -- The typological interest of lesser-known Romance gender systems
Summary
This book explores grammatical gender in the Romance languages and dialects and its evolution from Latin. It outlines the significant diversity found in the Romance varieties in this regard and uses this variation to show that traditional accounts of the loss of neuter gender cannot be correct
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December, 11, 2017)
