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The decline of feminine gender: a cross-dialectal study of seven Norwegian dialects

van Baal, Yvonne; Eik, Ragnhild; Solbakken, Hedda; Lohndal, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

This paper presents a cross-dialectal study of grammatical gender in Norwegian nominal phrases. Specifically, we investigate the decline of the feminine gender in three age groups across seven different dialects. The ...
The decline of feminine possessives in Norwegian: An empirical and theoretical investigation of gender and declension class

Solbakken, Hedda; Eik, Ragnhild; van Baal, Yvonne; Lohndal, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

This paper reports results from a large cross-dialectal study, showing that feminine forms are changing in several dialects. These results suggest that the Norwegian three-gender system may be in the process of becoming a ...