Природни и граматички род именица

Abstract

In this paper author addresses the issue of natural and grammatical gender of nouns, and their correlations. Natural gender author understands as a lexical and semantic category, rather then morphological. The author argues the methods of determine gender of nouns, with an emphasis on the congruent words as a primary method, and the type of declination as a secondary method. The author also argues that all nouns are of grammatical gender, and only certain nouns are of natural gender. From the morphological point of view only certain noun categories of natural gender are relevant, first of all those whose gender indicator (a congruent word) can be differently marked (as masculine and/or feminine, i.e. masculine and/or neuter). Thus, for the nouns with congruent words that can be only of a certain gender, only grammatical gender is taken into account, disregarding the type of declination for that noun (example: moja žena, moja kći, moj curetak).

У чланку се разматрају питања природног и граматичког рода именица и њихов међусобни однос. Посебна пажња посвећена је природном роду, који аутор посматра више као лексичко-семантичку, а мање морфолошку (граматичку) категорију. У чланку се такође разматра начин утврђивања именичког рода.