Clasificación nominal, concordancia y pronombres

Abstract

This work revises some properties of gender and noun classes, within the broader phenomena of noun classification. The main points of the paper are: 1) the distinction of grammatical noun classification from lexical classification of referents; 2) the typology of noun classification (classifiers, noun classes and gender) in relation lo a continuum of grammaticalization; 3) the revision of the possibilities of agreement as the main formal outcome of gender and noun classes; and 4) the discourse properties of gender agreement, which leads us to conclude that some gender-like properties of pronouns differ from gender agreement: some pronoun systems are sensitive only to referent properties, while gender systems always refer to grammatical properties of nouns.