Note 1118 — Chapter VII · THE EARLIEST DIFFERENTIATIONS OF POETRY
Reading edition
Grimm’s chapter on gender in the third volume of his Grammar remains the masterpiece of investigation in this subject; but his theory has been attacked by Brugmann. See, too, President Wheeler, “Origin of Grammatical Gender,” Journal Germanic Philology, II. 528 ff. Grimm defines gender, III. 346, “eine in der phantasie der menschlichen Sprache entsprungene ausdehnung des natürlichen auf alle und jede gegenstände.”