Unhistorical Gender Assignment in Layamons Brut: A Case Study of a Late Stage in the Development of Grammatical Gender toward it,Used

Unhistorical Gender Assignment in Layamons Brut: A Case Study of a Late Stage in the Development of Grammatical Gender toward it,Used

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This book explains how and why grammatical gender disappeared from English through a detailed analysis of unhistorical gender assignment within the noun phrase in Layamons Brut, one of the most important Early Middle English texts. Such deviations do occur capriciously but not randomly, suggesting a development of innovative functions of the attributive forms concerned.These innovations are mainly of two types: genderinsensitive uses as a case marker and a shift from a bipartite to tripartite system of defining words, the, that, and this. The author discusses these innovations, focusing on their implications for the subsequent development and eventual loss of grammatical gender.

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