This paper investigates the expression of grammatical gender in Heritage Argentine Danish. We examine a subset of the Corpus of South American Danish of approximately 20,500 tokens of gender marking produced by 90 speakers. The results show that Argentine Danish gender marking in general complies with the Standard Denmark Danish rules. However, there is also systematic variation: While there is hardly any difference compared to Standard Denmark Danish with respect to the definite suffix, gender marking on prenominal determiners differs from that in Standard Danish. More specifically, the less frequent neuter gender is more vulnerable, and common gender tends to be overgeneralized. Further, complex NPs with attributive adjectives show more variation in gender marking on prenominal determiners than simple NPs. As to sociolinguistic variation, the analysis shows that tokens produced by older speakers and speakers from settlements with a higher degree of language maintenance are consistent to a higher degree with Standard Danish gender marking. The paper compares these results with the results of studies of gender marking variation in other Germanic heritage languages. We conclude that the overall stability of grammatical gender in the Germanic heritage languages is a general pattern that only partly relates to social or societal factors.*

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阿根廷丹麦语语法性别：具有强烈模式变化的稳定性

本文研究了传统阿根廷丹麦语中语法性别的表达。我们检查了南美丹麦语语料库的一个子集，该语料库由 90 位发言者产生的大约 20,500 个性别标记标记。结果表明，阿根廷丹麦性别标记总体上符合丹麦丹麦标准规则。然而，也存在系统性差异：虽然与标准丹麦丹麦语在确定后缀方面几乎没有任何区别，但名词前限定词上的性别标记与标准丹麦语中的不同。更具体地说，频率较低的中性性别更容易受到伤害，而常见的性别往往被过度概括。此外，具有定语形容词的复杂 NP 在名词前限定词上的性别标记比简单的 NP 表现出更多的变化。至于社会语言变异，分析表明，年龄较大的说话者和来自语言维护程度较高的定居点的说话者制作的代币在较高程度上与标准丹麦性别标记一致。本文将这些结果与其他日耳曼遗产语言中性别标记变异的研究结果进行了比较。我们得出结论，日耳曼传统语言中语法性别的整体稳定性是一种普遍模式，仅部分与社会或社会因素有关。*