Sex and Gender in Natural Language
The topic of this paper is the relation between a real-world category (sex) and a linguistic category (gender). In the first part, the gender system of Indo-European languages is discussed. Then the gender-system in a language without grammatical gender is described. Finally, a few general comments...
Main Author: | Percival, W. Keith |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Kansas
1981-01-01
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Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/551 |
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