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... distinction between animate and inanimate things originating in the kinds of things one said about them . Protagoras could have spared himself anguish and students wouldn't have to puzzle over the alleged " grammatical gender " which ...
... distinction between animate and inanimate things originating in the kinds of things one said about them . Protagoras could have spared himself anguish and students wouldn't have to puzzle over the alleged " grammatical gender " which ...
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... distinction of biological sex . Because English had already lost the suffixes that marked grammatical gender in OE , a number of adjectives have been used to describe " gender , " such as " natural , notional , referential , or se ...
... distinction of biological sex . Because English had already lost the suffixes that marked grammatical gender in OE , a number of adjectives have been used to describe " gender , " such as " natural , notional , referential , or se ...
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... distinction was that be- tween those who were " free - born " and those who were not : those who served others and those who were served . Again , my interpretations are guesses , but the words themselves call for such a distinction ...
... distinction was that be- tween those who were " free - born " and those who were not : those who served others and those who were served . Again , my interpretations are guesses , but the words themselves call for such a distinction ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
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