gin and grammatical gender functions.are three basic hypotheses of an origin of a grammatical gender: semantic, morphological and syntactic. Supporters of the semantic concept (IG Gerder, J. Grimm, V. Humboldt, T. Jakobi, etc.) Believe that at the heart of a grammatical gender opposition of sex lies; the sex sign was translationred by ancient Endo-europeans on subjects of the lifeless nature. And this carrying over occurred by a principle: all big, fast, active concerns a masculine gender, all small, quiet, passive - to female, and all artificial and collective - to neuter [Gin, 1992]. One more supporter of the semantic concept of an origin of a grammatical gender G. Korbett recognizes that the grammatical gender system is morphological system, but thus considers that it also has a semantic basis, that is the linguistic category of gender is connected with В«an extralinguistic category of a biological sexВ». This semantic basis becomes obvious, when any sex corresponds with a word designating the person (ie the word designating the person of a female, as a rule, is a feminine gender word) [Corbett, 1991]. Of the morphological concept treat sex as the formal category which essence consists in classification of substantives, instead of reflexion of an extralanguage reality. And the opposition on sex is perceived as result of the latest rationalisation of nominal morphology [Gin, 1992]. Of the syntactic concept (G. Shteyntal, VV Joffe) believe that the gender is possible only in such languages ​​in which there is such syntactic link, as the coordination. If the noun has a gender category the adjective should also have this category, history of gender is a history of the coordination, and connection of a gender with sex - is secondary.is necessary to notice that existence of three hypotheses of an origin of a grammatical gender and allow researchers to consider a gender in different languages ​​from different corners as in different languages ​​the grammatical gender shows those or other functions to a greater or lesser extent, linguists allocate three basic functions of a grammatical gender which correspond to three hypotheses of its origin. Three functions a gender category: semantico-symbolical, syntactic and morphological (registration of a name and different types of declination) .. J. Blokh specifies in clashes of opinions on a category of gender of theorists and practical grammarians. In the theoretical plan the gender category is considered lexical or В«semanticВ» [AI Smirnitsky, 1959], however practical grammarians [MJ Ganshina and N.M. Vasilevsky], denying presence of grammatical gender, persistently specify in patrimonial distinctions of an English noun [Smirnitsky, 1959; Ганшина, 1972; Vasilevsky, 1974]. Fleas holds the opinion Smirnitsky, considering that, being semantic, the gender category is not excluded, nevertheless, from structure of grammatical categories [Fleas, 1994:52]. Sociolinguistics and psycho...
