Gender-neutral Language in EU Secondary Legislation
English does not have a grammatical gender, thus having an “intrinsic predisposition towards gender-neutral forms” (Poddighe 2020, 3). Most personal nouns do not indicate a specific gender, as in the case of person or engineer. However, there are also personal nouns with lexical gender, such as king...
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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona
2023-06-01
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Online Access: | https://iperstoria.it/article/view/1310 |