Genuszuweisung bei Lehnw rtern im Deutschen

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?