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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Main Author: Hein Steinhauer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities 2010-10-01
Series:Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
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Online Access:https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol12/iss2/5
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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
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