Acquisition of Gender

Gender as a morphosyntactic feature is arguably "e;an endlessly fascinating linguistic category"e; (Corbett 2014: 1). One may even say it is among "e;the most puzzling of the grammatical categories"e; (Corbett 1991: 1) that has raised probing questions from various theoretical and applied perspectives. Most languages display semantic and/or formal gender systems with various degrees of opacity and...