Gender and the Indonesian pronouns
The absence of a gender opposition in the Indonesian pronominal system requires special strategies in the translation from languages which do have such an opposition illustrated in the first part opf this article. In the second part the lexical and morphological means are discussed with which Indone...
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description | The absence of a gender opposition in the Indonesian pronominal system requires special strategies in the translation from languages which do have such an opposition illustrated in the first part opf this article. In the second part the lexical and morphological means are discussed with which Indonesian expresses gender, culminating in a description of the use of perempuan and wanita, pria and laki-laki. |
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spelling | doaj.art-f76bb9859a0f4173b96e1eb63c9ecbdd2023-07-12T01:35:35ZengUniversitas Indonesia, Faculty of HumanitiesWacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia1411-22722407-68992010-10-0112210.17510/wjhi.v12i2.119Gender and the Indonesian pronounsHein Steinhauer0Leiden University, Radboud University NijmegenThe absence of a gender opposition in the Indonesian pronominal system requires special strategies in the translation from languages which do have such an opposition illustrated in the first part opf this article. In the second part the lexical and morphological means are discussed with which Indonesian expresses gender, culminating in a description of the use of perempuan and wanita, pria and laki-laki.https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol12/iss2/5gender oppositionspersonal pronounsindonesiansemantics of |
spellingShingle | Hein Steinhauer Gender and the Indonesian pronouns Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia gender oppositions personal pronouns indonesian semantics of |
title | Gender and the Indonesian pronouns |
title_full | Gender and the Indonesian pronouns |
title_fullStr | Gender and the Indonesian pronouns |
title_full_unstemmed | Gender and the Indonesian pronouns |
title_short | Gender and the Indonesian pronouns |
title_sort | gender and the indonesian pronouns |
topic | gender oppositions personal pronouns indonesian semantics of |
url | https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol12/iss2/5 |
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