VARIABILITY IN THE GENDER CLASSIFICATION OF NOUNS

Authors

  • Anna V. Melgunova St. Petersburg State University, Address: 7–9, Universitetskaya emb., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation.

Abstract

The article deals with the examples of fluctuations in the grammatical gender of the German nouns. Some nouns are able to belong to two or three grammatical genders. The reason of it can be semantic differences between the variants. An other reason is the difficulty of the gender definition of the loan words from different languages. In the time of addition of new words into dictionaries they can receive different gender characteristics. Aside from that, there are some cases of the fluctuations in the territorial variants of the German language (in the Austrian and Swiss German). The author analyses German nouns, which have such special features and illustrates their usage by examples.

Keywords:

grammatical gender, loan word, neologism, transfer of meaning, territorial variants of the German language

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Author Biography

Anna V. Melgunova, St. Petersburg State University, Address: 7–9, Universitetskaya emb., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation.

Doctor of Philology Science (PhD), Associate Professor of German Philology Department, St. Petersburg State University

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Published

2025-03-25

How to Cite

Melgunova, A. V. (2025). VARIABILITY IN THE GENDER CLASSIFICATION OF NOUNS. German Philology at the St Petersburg State University , 6, 183–192. Retrieved from https://germanphilology.spbu.ru/article/view/19654

Issue

Section

III. VARIATION OF UNITS OF DIFFERENT GRADES