STRUCTURAL PECULARITIES OF NOUNS OF MASCULINE, FEMININE, NEUTER, AND COMMON GENDERS IN ENGLISH LINGUISTICS
STRUCTURAL PECULARITIES OF NOUNS OF MASCULINE, FEMININE, NEUTER, AND COMMON GENDERS IN ENGLISH LINGUISTICS

Summary/Abstract: General statement of the problem and its connec-tion with important scientific or practical aims. While grammatical gender was a fully productive inflectional category in Old English, Modern English has a much less pervasive gender system, primarily based on natural gender. The category of gender is oppositional. It is formed by two oppositions related to each other on a hierarchical basis. One opposition functions in the whole set of nouns, dividing them into person (animate, human) nouns and non - person (inanimate, non-human) nouns. The other opposition func-tions in the subset of person nouns only, dividing them into masculine and feminine gender.

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