RT Book, Section
T1 Feature analysis of neuter gender in Spanish and Asturian languages
T2 Análisis en rasgos del género neutro en español y asturiano
A1 Gil Laforga, Irene
A1 Gutiérrez Rodríguez, María Edita
A2 Cerrudo Aguilar, Alba
A2 Gallego Bartolomé, Ángel Jesús
A2 Roca Urgell, Francesc
AB ABSTRACT: It is traditionally considered that there are three values for pronominal gender (masculine, feminine, neuter). In this chapter, we explore the idea that there are no neuter pronouns in Spanish, as neuter doesn’t show agreement effects. Then we focus on mass neuter agreement, a phenomenon that takes place in an area of Central and Northern Peninsular Spanish. After studying the kind of syntactic information that can be obtained from syntactic atlases, we present an overview of the phenomenon from a purely descriptive point of view. We finally focus on demonstratives and we claim that the Asturian demonstrative «esto» with a mass noun antecedent is a determiner that takes an uncountable null noun as its complement, whose features are contextually recovered.
PB John Benjamins Publishing Company
SN 978-90-272-1051-7 (HB)
SN 978-90-272-5987-5 (e-Book)
SN 2213-3887
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/119726
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/119726
LA eng
NO Gil, Irene, y Edita Gutiérrez. «Feature analysis of neuter gender in Spanish and Asturian languages». Syntactic Geolectal Variation : Traditional approaches, current challenges and new tools, editado por Alba Cerrudo et al., John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021, pp. 175-202, https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.34.06gil.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 26 abr 2025