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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao" <josimo70@...> wrote:
> I know no Brazilian dialect where the gender is lost.
>
from T&K:
"But if all the candidates for interference features are
simplificatory, such as the loss of gender in rural Brazilian
Portuguese, it is harder to establish substratum influence (pace da
Silveiro Bueno: "Les langues indigènes de Brésil et leur influence
sur le Portugais". Orbis 12:226-240 (1963)) - in this case from Tupí
and Guaraní - because these changes may well have developed either
independently through internal means or though other external
influences, eg. from a Portuguese-based creole..."
Torsten