ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5229 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French
| Message 1 of 3 26 July 2011 at 5:07pm | IP Logged |
These are two topics I'm having a lot of trouble Googling. Does anybody know any sources, or even just basic theories, on the origins of inflection in language and grammatical gender?
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7157 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 2 of 3 27 July 2011 at 8:10pm | IP Logged |
The following may be steps in the right direction:
Purpose of gender and conjugations
Sex, Syntax and Semantics
From Grammatical to Natural Gender
Grimm vs. Brugmann on gender: Analogies in ancient, medieval and modern linguistics
Grammatical gender
Do languages ever shift from analytic to synthetic?
Where have all the inflections gone?
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ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5229 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French
| Message 3 of 3 27 July 2011 at 8:47pm | IP Logged |
Thanks. Not completely satisfying, but as you say, a start.
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