Re: Grammatical Gender

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "andythewiros" <anjarrette@...> wrote:

> Forgive me if I have earlier posted a like message.

> I would like to know whether there exists any treatise, essay, book, etc. that offers a plausible explanation for the origin of grammatical gender in the Indo-European languages.

Have you looked at Greville Corbett's book 'Gender'? It has a 6 page section on the rise of gender. For the split of the Indo-Hittite animate into masculine and feminine, he refers the user to:

Brosman, Paul W., Jr.: The development of the PIE feminine. — JIES 10, 1982.

Richard.