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... nouns that refer to females carry the semantic feature [ + female ] ; likewise , all those referring to men are catego- rized semantically as [ + male ] . This analysis appears to work well for cer- tain human nouns . Thus , words like ...
... nouns that refer to females carry the semantic feature [ + female ] ; likewise , all those referring to men are catego- rized semantically as [ + male ] . This analysis appears to work well for cer- tain human nouns . Thus , words like ...
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... nouns , the latter to the feminine declension . Remember , though , that grammatical gender didn't make a noun sex - specific , and many OE human nouns referred to persons of both sexes . Husbonde , for example , which meant ' peasant ...
... nouns , the latter to the feminine declension . Remember , though , that grammatical gender didn't make a noun sex - specific , and many OE human nouns referred to persons of both sexes . Husbonde , for example , which meant ' peasant ...
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... human nouns would be understood to refer to men . Instead of carrying the feature [ + male ] , they would be [ + human ] ( to distinguish them from lizards , gnats , and rattlesnakes ) . Just those few words categorized as female would ...
... human nouns would be understood to refer to men . Instead of carrying the feature [ + male ] , they would be [ + human ] ( to distinguish them from lizards , gnats , and rattlesnakes ) . Just those few words categorized as female would ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
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