Alcune riflessioni sugli agentivi femminili: l’italiano e il polacco a confronto
Some reflections on feminine agentives: Italian and Polish in comparison

Summary/Abstract: Agentives still do not dispose of the full paradigm of feminine forms. Today, the tendency to reintroduce the principle of a symmetrical linguistic use in this lexical repertory is quite strong. The discussion of some theoretical issues concerning the grammar and use of feminine agentives is followed by a preliminary analysis of different ways in which the information about the sex of a referent can be encoded on morphological, morphosyntactic, lexical and pragmatic level in two inflected languages, i.e. Italian and Polish. The contrastive perspective has allowed us to grasp some linguistic aspects often ignored in the analyses of the phenomenon in only one language.

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