From: andythewiros
Message: 66396
Date: 2010-08-08
>OK, I have at least one of those. Thks.
> >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.
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> Yes, it does. You should start with some of the standard works on
> Indo-European.
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> W P Lehmann, "Theoretical Bases of Indo-European linguistics" has a small
> discussion on pages 141 and 152-153. Szemerényi "Introduction to
> Indo-European linguistics" also has some discussion, on pages 155-157,
> 192-3, 203 and 211.
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> Peter
>