Did you know that Italian used to have a neuter gender? It's true! Old Italian had three genders: masculine, feminine, and a genus alternans that we might call the neuter, like Romanian. Discover the fascinating nature of the transitional grammar of Mediaeval Italian, and what it tells us about the development of the Romance languages.

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SOURCES:

Loporcaro et al. (2014): https://www.academia.edu/72531006/The...

Middei (2022):
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Treccani on the Neuter Gender in Italian:
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Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart

00:00 Intro
00:25 Gender from Latin into Italian
03:30 Loporcaro et al. (2014)
04:46 Evidence for a 3rd Gender in Old Italian
06:57 Old Italian compared with Romanian
08:37 Examples of Neuter Plural Target Gender in Preliterary Italian
10:23 The transition from Neuter Plural to Genus Alternans
12:48 Che fico! Che ficora!
14:21 Outtakes