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Darrera modificació: 2020-07-17
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Diego Rodríguez, Irene, "Assigned gender in astrological vocabulary: the case of þe planettes en", dins: Guerrero Medina, Pilar - Palma Gutiérrez, Macarena - Valero Redondo, María (eds.), Advances in English and American Studies: current developments, future trends, Córdoba:, UCOPress, 2020, pp. 105-116.
- Resum
- This paper aims to study gender variation from a diachronic perspective, ana-lysing the gender of the eight proper nouns used to name the planets and of thecommon noun planet in several Old English and Middle English astrological texts. During these periods, there were eight planets:Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the Sun and the Moon, which were also consideredplanets. Both OE <eorþe> (ModE Earth) and <sunne> ModE Sun) are Germanic feminine nouns ending in <e>. Unlike them, the OE term <mona>(ModE Moon) is a masculine noun ending in <a>. The three of them belong tothe weak declension. However, the other five planets were incorporated into English from Latin: <Mercurius>, <Mars>, <Jupiter> and <Saturnus>, whichare masculine nouns, and <Venus>, which is feminine. Furthermore, the common noun planet comes from Old French <planète>. During the ME period, the loss of inflections entailed the disappearance of “overt marking within thenoun phrase” (Guzmán-González 1999, 38). Grammatical gender survivedduring the ME period to a limited extent in personal pronouns and possessive determiners, though (Moore 1921, 84). This fact will be illustrated with examples taken from different corpora.
- Matèries
- Astronomia i astrologia
Anglès
Lexicografia
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/43633668/_Assigned_gender_ ...
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