Gil Laforga, IreneGutiérrez Rodríguez, María EditaCerrudo Aguilar, AlbaGallego Bartolomé, Ángel JesúsRoca Urgell, Francesc2025-04-252025-04-252021Gil, 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.978-90-272-1051-7 (HB)978-90-272-5987-5 (e-Book)2213-388710.1075/ihll.34.06gil10.1075/ihll.34https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/119726ABSTRACT: 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.engbook parthttps://benjamins.com/catalog/ihll.34.06gilhttps://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.34.06gilhttps://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027259875-ihll.34.06gilhttps://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027259875https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.34https://benjamins.com/catalog/ihll.34https://benjamins.com/https://www.jbe-platform.com/open access811.134.2'366.52811.134.62'366.52811.134.2'367.626811.134.62'367.62681'367(084.42)81'362Neuter pronounsMass neuter agreementDemonstrativesGenderSyntactic atlasesLengua españolaLingüísticaFilología románica5703 Geografía Lingüística5705.01 Lingüística Comparada5705.13 Sintaxis, Análisis Sintáctico