%0 Journal Article %T Genuszuweisung bei Lehnw rtern im Deutschen %A P. Forg¨˘cs %A Edit %J Argumentum %D 2012 %I Debrecen University Press %X The peculiarities of gender-assignment in the case of foreign- and loan-words are often analysed by linguists in order to be able to see if language-users apply the genus-rules with these nouns in the same way as they do it with German nouns. The aim of the present paper is to answer the following question: Is there a correspondence between the principles of gender-assignment in the case of German and loan-words, or are there any other factors that influence the gender of the latter? %K gender %K loan-words %K rules for assigning gender %U http://argumentum.unideb.hu/2012-anyagok/pforgacse1.pdf