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SPECIES EPITHETS AND GENDER INFORMATION
Author(s) -
Nicolson Dan H.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1221280
Subject(s) - epithet , nominative case , linguistics , noun , proper noun , grammatical gender , implicature , philosophy , verb , pragmatics
Summary Adjectives (including participles) and nouns are regularly used as species epithets. Nouns maintain their gender and are grammatically independent of the generic name but adjectives indicate the gender of the generic name to the extent they have three, two or only one ending(s) in nominative singular. Generalizations and exceptions are presented with examples.