Research Article

GRAMMATICAL GENDER IN GERMAN LANGUAGE AND THE ACQUISITION OF THIS SYSTEM

Number: 160 June 1, 2013
  • Halit Mehmet Atli
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GRAMMATICAL GENDER IN GERMAN LANGUAGE AND THE ACQUISITION OF THIS SYSTEM

Abstract

It is said that the learning/acquisition of German language as L2 is difficult. Thepossible reason for this opinion is German grammatical gender system, because ithas a very unorderly and complex nature system. By each grammatical rules of thislanguage has got a series of exception rules. We are witnessed that, both linguistsand educators, who are expert in languages, as well as the people, who are notexperts in the language, are often commented the multitude of exceptions in grammatical rules and the difficulty of grammatical gender system of this language.Some modern linguists say that, this language has no rules to determine the grammatical gender system and goes further and say, each substantive should be memorized with its definite article.However, it is not correct to say that the language occurred from irregular structures, above all there is no language in the world, particularly the natural languageoccurs from a number of irregular structures. The modern linguistics says the building of words and sentence is not arbitrary, they occur in a certain harmony.However, many of the studies of descriptive linguistics analysis showed that, theleaner of German language acquired the grammatical gender system; during theyhandled the words in a process of morphological, semantic and phonologicalaccording some inductive rules. But in which extent the acquirers use the rules ofthis language as L2 and how they use exactly the rules is unknown.In this study, we have showed the concept of grammatical gender, the use of its inGerman language, its specifications, functions and we have made a detailed examination of the various studies conducted on this issue. Furthermore, we have gotsoughed the answer of acquisition process of grammatical gender system and theformulated grammatical gender determination process by L2 learner

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Linguistics

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Halit Mehmet Atli This is me

Publication Date

June 1, 2013

Submission Date

January 1, 2013

Acceptance Date

-

Published in Issue

Year 2013 Number: 160

APA
Atli, H. M. (2013). GRAMMATICAL GENDER IN GERMAN LANGUAGE AND THE ACQUISITION OF THIS SYSTEM. Dil Dergisi, 160, 5-25. https://doi.org/10.1501/Dilder_0000000188