TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kreiner, Lea
T1  - Das Genus im Sprachvergleich: Genuszuweisung bei substantivischen Lehnwörtern im Deutschen und Spanischen
JF  - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik
N2  - This article examines principles of gender assignment in the German and Spanish language and in this way tries to answer the question of why loanwords are preferably assigned a particular gender and what criteria motivate this choice. After introducing some general aspects about gender as well as some important properties of the German and Spanish gender systems, this paper compares several formal (morphological and phonological) and semantic rules regarding gender assignment. Despite large structural differences between the languages, the comparison shows that the assignment rules prove to be in a sense cross-lingual, which do not only testify to the assumption but also the validity of an underlying system of rules.
KW  - gender assignment
KW  - loanwords
KW  - German
KW  - Spanish
KW  - contrastive linguistics
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329784
SN  - 2364-6705
VL  - 8
ER  -