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This analysis appears to work well for certain human nouns. Thus, words like
mother, aunt, niece, widow, wife, girl, woman, and daughter all belong to the [ +
female] (or [-male]) category and the pronoun she can be substituted for them in ...
This analysis appears to work well for certain human nouns. Thus, words like
mother, aunt, niece, widow, wife, girl, woman, and daughter all belong to the [ +
female] (or [-male]) category and the pronoun she can be substituted for them in ...
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My earlier discussion of human nouns, such as poet, lawyer, fisherman, boss,
politician, engineer, and physician, demonstrated that occupations outside the
home are conceptually classified by English speakers as male- specific, and so ...
My earlier discussion of human nouns, such as poet, lawyer, fisherman, boss,
politician, engineer, and physician, demonstrated that occupations outside the
home are conceptually classified by English speakers as male- specific, and so ...
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In Indo-European languages, the genitive case identifies a noun or pronoun of
possession. predicate: The part of a sentence ... [Human] is a feature that
distinguishes human nouns from other animate nouns (dog); [female]
distinguishes nouns ...
In Indo-European languages, the genitive case identifies a noun or pronoun of
possession. predicate: The part of a sentence ... [Human] is a feature that
distinguishes human nouns from other animate nouns (dog); [female]
distinguishes nouns ...
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Contents
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
The Patriarchal Universe of Discourse | 36 |
The Sex of Nouns | 55 |
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| Title | Speaking freely: unlearning the lies of the fathers' tongues NE (Series) The Athene series |
| Author | Julia Penelope |
| Publisher | Pergamon Press, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 5 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0080365566, 9780080365565 |
| Length | 281 pages |
| Subjects | › › Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General |
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