Hatt or si? Neuter and feminine gender assignment in reference to female persons in Luxembourgish

IF 0.5 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS STUF-Language Typology and Universals Pub Date : 2019-11-01 DOI:10.1515/stuf-2019-0022
Sara Martín
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Abstract In Luxembourgish, feminine as well as neuter gender can be assigned to female persons. Here, female first names are morphologically treated as neuter and therefore trigger neuter gender on their targets (e.g. definite article, personal pronoun). Last names referring to women, however, are feminine and take feminine targets respectively. While the use of neuter and feminine in prototypical and invariable reference contexts are well-known, morphological conflicts often arise regarding more complex name types (e.g. female first name + last name) leading to different degrees of variation between both genders. Building especially upon previous findings by Döhmer (2016), the present contribution offers a first extensive empirical analysis on the use of neuter and feminine personal pronouns considering different female referents as well as familiarity, the referent’s and the speaker’s, as decisive (socio-pragmatical) factors for gender assignment. The results are based on elicited data retrieved from an online survey and audio recordings collected by means of the Luxembourgish language app Schnëssen and allow a quantification of the phenomenon going beyond previous contributions and descriptions in reference grammars. The apparent-time analysis, carried out in order to identify potential tendencies in language change, suggests a preference for neuter pronominalization for younger speakers of Luxembourgish in variable reference contexts.
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帽子还是帽子?卢森堡语中关于女性的中性和女性性别分配
在卢森堡,女性既可以被称为中性,也可以称为阴性。在这里,女性的名字在形态上被视为中性,因此在其目标(如定冠词、人称代词)上触发中性。而与女性相关的姓氏则是女性化的,以女性为目标。虽然中性和女性在典型和不变的参考语境中的使用是众所周知的,但在更复杂的名字类型(例如女性名+姓氏)中经常出现形态冲突,导致两性之间的不同程度的差异。特别是在Döhmer(2016)之前的研究结果的基础上,本论文首次对中性和女性人称代词的使用进行了广泛的实证分析,考虑到不同的女性指代物以及指代物和说话人的熟悉程度,作为性别分配的决定性(社会实用主义)因素。结果基于从在线调查中提取的数据和通过卢森堡语言应用程序Schnëssen收集的录音,并允许对这种现象进行量化,而不仅仅是以前的贡献和参考语法中的描述。为了确定语言变化的潜在趋势而进行的明显时间分析表明,在可变的参考环境中,年轻的卢森堡语使用者更倾向于使用中性代词。
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