Gender and word order in conjoined binominals

Authors

  • Gregor Perko

Keywords:

gender, morphosyntactic categories, discourse, semantics, pragmatics

Abstract

The article focuses on binominals with masculine and feminine nouns denoting humans linked by the conjunction in (and). I attempt to highlight the complexity of the reasons that influence word order in these binominals.

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Published

2019-07-02

How to Cite

Perko, G. (2019) “Gender and word order in conjoined binominals”, Slavistična revija, 67(2), pp. 171–177. Available at: https://srl.si/ojs/srl/article/view/2019-2-1-5 (Accessed: 24 November 2024).

Issue

Vol. 67 No. 2 (2019)

Section

ARTICLES

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