In this paper, we investigate an ongoing change in the grammatical gender system of Norwegian. Previous research has shown that the feminine form of the indefinite article is quickly disappearing from several dialects, which has led to claims that the feminine gender is being lost from the language. We have carried out a study of the status of the feminine in possessives across five age groups of speakers of the Tromsø dialect. Our findings show that the prenominal possessives are affected by the change to the same extent as the indefinite article, while forms that have been argued not to be exponents of gender (the definite suffix and the postnominal possessive) are generally unaffected.

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语言变化中的语法性别和变格类：挪威语中女性性别丧失的研究

在本文中，我们调查了挪威语语法性别系统的持续变化。先前的研究表明，不定冠词的女性形式正在迅速从几种方言中消失，这导致了女性性别正在从语言中消失的说法。我们对特罗姆瑟方言的五个年龄组的所有格中的女性地位进行了研究。我们的研究结果表明，名词前所有格受变化的影响程度与不定冠词相同，而被认为不是性别指数的形式（定后缀和名词后所有格）通常不受影响。