The dynamics of feminisation ... : A corpus-based diachronic analysis of Dutch and German feminising morphology ...

The Dutch and German morphological feminisation systems, i.e., the morphology serving the marking of female sex on personal nouns, are analysed in this manuscript. For this, diachronic data were collected, which substantiate the observation that feminisation is being less actively made use of in Dutch than in German. The reasons for these diverging phenomena were explored empirically in three different corpus studies: 1) a study that aims to describe the Dutch and German feminisation systems in various text genres/registers (newspapers, chats, tweets) synchronically, and which also focuses on... Mehr ...