TY - BOOK ID - 8523280 TI - One word, two genders : categorization and agreement in Dutch double gender nouns PY - 2016 SN - 9783034309271 PB - Bern : Peter Lang, DB - UniCat KW - Dutch language KW - Gender KW - Noun KW - Gender. KW - Noun. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8523280 AB - Dutch is a peculiar language in that certain nouns have more than one gender. This first academic study of double gender nouns (DGNs) in the Dutch language investigates this anomaly. First assigned a lexicological classification, the DGNs are then analysed contextually by means of a corpus study. DGNs are shown to be part of a generalized restructuring of Dutch gender as a whole. No longer a fringe phenomenon in the Dutch gender system, this study shows them to be catalysts in the transition towards a (more) semantic system, a process that is much more advanced than commonly assumed. ER -