On the Gender of English Nouns

作     者：洪增长 

作者机构：上海师范大学外国语学院上海200234 

出 版 物：《Sino-US English Teaching》 (中美英语教学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2007年第4卷第3期

页      面：43-47页

学科分类：0501[文学-中国语言文学] 0303[法学-社会学] 050102[文学-语言学及应用语言学] 03[法学] 030303[法学-人类学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：English nouns gender-marking grammatical gender semantic gender genre 

摘      要：This research paper mainly discusses gender of English nouns and its corresponding issues. Gender in other Indo-European languages is a grammatical abstract notion, but English gender is a semantic concrete conception. English nouns can be divided into four categories： masculine, feminine, common and neuter. Gender genre of an English noun involves the choice of a pronoun that is employed to substitute it. Gender of the pronoun should be identical with its referent. However, the rule may be broken under special conditions. English has lost most word-ending inflectional changes, including grammatical gender of nouns.