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

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语法性别：获取、消耗和变化

本文通过汇集来自第一语言习得、挪威传统语言和方言变化的数据来讨论挪威语的语法性别。在所有这些情况下，性别通常被认为是一个脆弱的类别，可以说是由于性别分配相对不透明。此外，在许多挪威方言中，女性的性别正在消失，因为女性的一致形式（例如，不定冠词）与男性的结合。相反，确定的后缀是相当稳定的，因为它是早期获得的并且不会经历损耗/变化。我们认为，综合数据提供了性别和变格类是独立现象的证据，我们概述了可能的正式分析来解释这些发现。 *