A Corpus-Based Study of the Gender Assignment of Nominal Anglicisms in Brazilian Portuguese

The purpose of this study is to analyze the variability of gender assignment to nominal anglicisms in Brazilian Portuguese and to identify how the orthography of English loanwords and their establishment in the language influences such variation. This study also seeks to identify the most important...

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Main Author: Skahill, Taryn Marie
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2020
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8524
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9524&context=etd