Names, derivational morphology, and Old English gender
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2008
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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The paper argues that names constitute a primary linguistic category: they do not constitute a subclass
of nouns. What have been regarded as formal devices for signalling “name-hood”, “properness”,
and so on, are part of a language’s derivational morphology. In this context, it argues that
apparent “changes of gender” of Old English nouns are the product of a type of derivational
(word-class changing) morphology.
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 44 (2008), pp. 29-52