Quelques remarques sur la catégorie grammaticale du genre des animaux en slovaque et en francais

Ráčková, Lucia, Hrčková, 1987- Quelques remarques sur la catégorie grammaticale du genre des animaux en slovaque et en francais / Lucia Ráčková. -- The gender is a grammatical category, which is often a cause for confusion and or even interferences. That is why we are going to compare the gender in Slovak and French Language based on the ground of specific vocabulary of animal nouns on the sample of fifty animal nouns. The sample consists of vocabulary of animal nouns in French chosen from the book La nature et le monde merveilleux des animaux by A. I. Chtchetinina. We suppose that despite the territorial and linguistic distance which separates Slovak, West Slavic Language and French, West Romanic language, most of the animal nouns will have the same gender. The phenomenon is interesting for us from the point of view of learning Slovak language to French-speaking users. Our research involves the fact that words designating living things, the animated nouns, should follow the rule of natural gender. This principle is omnipresent in the books on grammar and gender, it is possible to find it for example in La nouvelle grammaire du français by J. Dubois et R. Lagane : It is about the differentiation between animated nouns (human beings + animals) and non-animated nouns (objects + things) that some grammar rules are based on. So the animated nouns change generally in gender according to the natural sex of a person (or of an animal), while the second ones have invariant grammatical gender (...) (Dubois – Lagane 2008 : 42). Actually, our paper will concentrate on grammatical or epicene gender of animal vocabulary which appears to be arbitrary or artificial. We are interested also in the question of acquisition of gender of the animal nouns in Slovak by a French-speaking learner. Our article will then present the comparative point of view on the grammatical category of gender of the two described languages.

In Lingue, letterature, identità in contatto Arcangeli, Massimo, 1960-. -- Rím : Aracne Editrice, 2020. -- 640 p.. -- ISBN ISBN 978-88-255-2552-6. -- S. 521-530

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