On the Predictability of Gender in Slovenian

Authors

  • Tatjana Marvin

Keywords:

Slovenian, noun, gender, epicene, hybrid

Abstract

The article deals with the predictability of gender in Slovenian nouns by comparing the system of gender assignment in Toporišič (2000) and Corbett (1991). In the first part, Corbett’s algorithm for classifying nouns into gender groups is presented and applied to Slovenian. The second part introduces some special cases that cannot be classified with Corbett’s algorithm (epicene, hybrid, and double gender nouns).

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Published

2019-07-02

How to Cite

Marvin, T. (2019) “On the Predictability of Gender in Slovenian”, Slavistična revija, 67(2), pp. 151–158. Available at: https://srl.si/ojs/srl/article/view/2019-2-1-3 (Accessed: 4 December 2024).

Issue

Vol. 67 No. 2 (2019)

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ARTICLES

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