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Le Ou La? : The Gender of French Nouns Modern Languages in Practice ; 1
author
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Surridge, Marie.
publisher
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Multilingual Matters
isbn10 | asin
:
1853592692
print isbn13
:
9781853592690
ebook isbn13
:
9780585171708
language
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English
subject
French language--Gender, French language--Noun.
publication date
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1995
lcc
:
PC2211.S87 1995eb
ddc
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445
subject
:
French language--Gender, French language--Noun.
Page ii
MODERN LANGUAGES IN PRACTICE
Series Editor Michael Grenfell, School of Education, University of Southampton
Editorial Board Do Coyle, School of Education, University of Nottingham Simon Green, Trinity & All Saints College, Leeds
Editorial Consultant Christopher Brumfit, Centre for Language in Education, University of Southampton
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Page iii
MODERN LANGUAGES IN PRACTICE 1 Series Editor: Michael Grenfell
Le ou La?
The Gender of French Nouns
Marie Surridge
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS LTD Clevedon Philadelphia Adelaide
Page iv
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Surridge, Marie, 1931 Le ou La?: The Gender of French Nouns/Marie Surridge (Modern Languages in Practice: 1) Includes bibliographical references 1. French language-Gender. 2. French language-Nouns. I. Title. II. Series PC2211.S97 1995 445-dc20 94-47319
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 1-85359-269-2 (hbk) ISBN 1-85359-268-4 (pbk)
Multilingual Matters Ltd
UK: Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall, Victoria Road, Clevedon, Avon BS21 7SJ. USA: 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007, USA. Australia: P.O. Box 6025, 83 Gilles Street, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia.
Copyright 1995 Marie Surridge.
All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher.
Cartoons by Ron Hore. Cover design by Bob Jones Associates. Printed and bound in Great Britain by WBC Ltd, Bridgend.
Page v
Contents
Foreword
vii
Index of Terms
ix
Introduction
1
Testing Your Gender Assignment Competence
5
Learning from Children about Learning Genders
7
The Great Divide: Semantic Versus Grammatical Gender
10
The Link Between Gender and Phonetic Word Ending
14
Meaning and the Gender of Inanimate Nouns
26
The Role of Word Structure in Determining Gender
33
Biological or Sociological Gender: The Gender of Animate Nouns
46
Gender Makes the Difference: Distinguishing between Homophones
52
Seeing How the Network Operates
58
In Conclusion
61
A List of Frequent Nouns With Their Genders
66
Bibliography
86
Page vii
Foreword
This book is intended to help students of French as a second language to discover the systems at work in the assignment of noun genders in French, and to develop effective methods for assigning genders correctly. It is directed towards the serious student at intermediate level or above (post-GCSE in Britain). It should also be able to meet the needs of people using French as a second language at an otherwise highly competent level, including many possessing degrees in French, who find gender assignment to be a persistent, virtually intractable problem. This difficulty is particularly acute for those whose native language (for example, English) does not possess a rigorous system of noun classification like that of French. However, even those whose own language has a gender system somewhat similar to that of French (for example, German speakers) are not exempt.
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