One Word, Two Genders : Categorization and Agreement in Dutch Double Gender Nouns (New ed)

Dutch is a peculiar language in that certain nouns have more than one gender.

This first academic study of double gender nouns (DGNs) in the Dutch language investigates this anomaly.

First assigned a lexicological classification, the DGNs are then analysed contextually by means of a corpus study.

DGNs are shown to be part of a generalized restructuring of Dutch gender as a whole.

No longer a fringe phenomenon in the Dutch gender system, this study shows them to be catalysts in the transition towards a (more) semantic system, a process that is much more advanced than commonly assumed.