Сравнительно-историческое языкознание

Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2004. — 252 p. This book discusses the origin and history of the grammatical category of gender in the Indo-European family of languages. Gender systems of Proto-Indo-European (PIE), and of the various daughter languages are assessed from historical, typological, and areal points of view. In addition, common properties and tendencies (or drift) in the...