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... discussion of grammatical and " natural " gender in Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics ( 1969 ) described the problem that speakers of French experience when an adjective , which must agree in number and gender with the noun it ...
... discussion of grammatical and " natural " gender in Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics ( 1969 ) described the problem that speakers of French experience when an adjective , which must agree in number and gender with the noun it ...
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... discussion indicates , grammatical gender in German is a compli- cated system of categorization , made more opaque by the assumed develop- ment from a classification system based on sex . German illustrates what is meant by ...
... discussion indicates , grammatical gender in German is a compli- cated system of categorization , made more opaque by the assumed develop- ment from a classification system based on sex . German illustrates what is meant by ...
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... discussion of the Chinese radical nu3 I am indebted to the generosity of Professor Louie Crew , who first shared Geoffrey Wade's essay with me , and to Mr. Chan Wing Cheung who transliterated the Chinese characters for me , explained ...
... discussion of the Chinese radical nu3 I am indebted to the generosity of Professor Louie Crew , who first shared Geoffrey Wade's essay with me , and to Mr. Chan Wing Cheung who transliterated the Chinese characters for me , explained ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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