A discussion of grammatical gender in the context of the Romance (Latin-descended) languages, with a specific focus on Italian and Romanian. I also go into the origin of some unusual (within the European context) gender features in these languages.

I'm sorry for my pronunciation, especially of Romanian. I tried with the exact amount of effort required to neither be considered lazy nor be scolded for trying too hard and still failing.


Sources:

Bateman, Nicoleta; Polinsky, Maria. "Romanian as a Two-Gender Language"

Petrucci, Peter R. 1993. Slavic features in the history of Romanian. Doctoral dissertation, USC.

Rosetti, Alexandru. 1965. Linguistica. The Hague: Mouton.


The film is "Life of Brian" by Monty Python. And yes, I'm aware that the clip I showed is technically about conjugations and I was technically talking about declensions: don't bully me, it's a funny *reference*.

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00:00 - L'italiano
00:20 - Grammatical Gender
03:00 - Romanian Grammatical Gender
04:59 - Heterogeneity
05:53 - Latin Grammar Time
06:49 - Conclusion

Translations:
Icaro Vega - Spanish
palpatinezw - Standard Mandarin
Leeuwe van den Heuvel - Dutch