Grammatical Gender: Acquisition, Attrition, and Change

This paper discusses grammatical gender in Norwegian by bringing together data from first language acquisition, heritage language, and dialect change. In all these contexts, is often claimed to be a vulnerable category, arguably due the relative non-transparency of assignment. Furthermore, feminine process being lost many dialects, as agreement forms (for example, indefinite article) are merged with masculine. The definite suffix, contrast, quite stable, it acquired early does not undergo attrition/change. We argue that combined provide evidence declension class separate phenomena, we outline possible formal analysis account for findings.*