Linguistische Berichte Heft 282

This academic journal issue delivers cutting-edge linguistic research that challenges fundamental assumptions about French grammar, specifically examining how gender is represented in the language. The featured study by Brinkmann and colleagues presents compelling psycholinguistic evidence that French grammatical gender operates as a three-part system, moving beyond the traditional masculine/feminine binary. This research provides fresh insights into noun classification and its manifestation across determiners and adjectives, offering a more nuanced understanding of French linguistic structure.

What makes this volume particularly valuable is its methodological rigor in investigating language processing and mental representation of grammatical categories. The research will especially benefit linguistics scholars, cognitive scientists, and advanced students of French seeking to understand the deeper architecture of gender systems. By presenting empirical data that contradicts long-held binary assumptions, this issue fundamentally advances our comprehension of how grammatical gender functions in real-time language use and mental representation.