Prehistory of the Origin of the Generic Relations in the Indo-European Languages

Kazantseva Tatyana Yuryevna

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We might conclude that consonantal markers are characteristic of nouns of all three genders, therefore they didn’t relate to the grammatical category of gender, which was formed later. As the markers are rather old, the original meaning of them was connected with an earlier category – category of animateness/inanimateness, i.e. they were markers of animateness. Generation of the grammatical gender was connected with vowel markers.

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Issue: 4, 2005

Series of issue: Humanities (Philology: Indoeuropean and Siberian languages)

Rubric: Indo-European Languages

Pages: 21 — 27

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