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This article collects and analyzes some passages in which Servius, in his Commentaries on Vergil’s works, deals with questions of
grammatical gender. The research aims to see how much interest Servius had in this topic, which doctrinal and didactic principles

Tocharian had a large number of demonstrative pronouns and determiners, whose basic element derives from the Proto-Indo-European gender-differentiated pronoun *so (masc.), *seh₂ (fem.), *tod (nt.) ‘this, that’. This article is chiefly concerned with the diachronic evolution of the endings and forms of these demonstratives, paying particular attention to the inflection of the feminine and the subsequent evolution of the category of gender.