Cleaning aunts and police uncles in action. Unveiling gender dynamics in Estonian compound words

This paper focuses on the use of compound words ending with tädi ‘aunt’ and onu ‘uncle’ in the 2021 Estonian Web Corpus. The aim is to determine the frequencies and semantic categories of such compounds as well as to analyze how occupational titles that incorporate these gender-specific words are us...

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Main Author: Elisabeth Kaukonen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tartu Press 2023-12-01
Series:Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri
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Online Access:https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/22515