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The Instability of the Gender Category in Kamchatsky Dialects // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2007. Issue 2 (65). P. 52-57

The article «The Instability of the Gender Category in Kamchatsky dialects» presents the analysis of the gender category of general Russian and dialect nouns functionating in Kamchadals’ dialects. The aim of the article is to point out the differences in the distribution of the whole totality of the nouns marked in the dialects among gender classes. In this work the nouns are classified into four groups: I. General Russian words, the gender category of which is common in the dialect language and in the literary language (LL). II. General Russian words, the gender category of which doesn’t coincide with the LL and the dialects. III. General Russian words with the «roaming» gender category in the dialect speech. IV. The dialect nouns, the gender category of which differs from the LL.