Le ou la? : the gender of French nouns /

Main Author: Surridge, Marie, 1931-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Clevedon [England] ; Multilingual Matters, 1995.
Series:Modern languages in practice ; 1
Subjects:
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Table of Contents:
  • Testing your gender assignment competence
  • Learning from children about learning genders
  • The great divide: semantic versus grammatical gender
  • The link between gender and phonetic word ending
  • Meaning and the gender of inanimate nouns
  • The role of word structure in determining gender
  • Biological or sociological gender: the gender of animate nouns
  • Gender makes the difference: distinguishing between homophones
  • Seeing how the network operates.