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... sex in vocabularies . The most common method assigns to male - specific words either the feature [ + male ] or , borrowing the terminology of gender , [ + masculine ] . Female - specific words are then marked as either [ -male ] or ...
... sex in vocabularies . The most common method assigns to male - specific words either the feature [ + male ] or , borrowing the terminology of gender , [ + masculine ] . Female - specific words are then marked as either [ -male ] or ...
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... gender coincide , with the exception of WTf and wer , the first belonging to the neuter class of nouns , the latter to the feminine declension . Remember , though , that grammatical gender didn't make a noun sex - specific , and many OE ...
... gender coincide , with the exception of WTf and wer , the first belonging to the neuter class of nouns , the latter to the feminine declension . Remember , though , that grammatical gender didn't make a noun sex - specific , and many OE ...
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... sex- specific words in common usage in ModE , girl , boy , spinster , and bachelor . With the exception of boy , they aren't attested ( in written documents ) until two or three centuries after the Norman Conquest . Girle , whose ...
... sex- specific words in common usage in ModE , girl , boy , spinster , and bachelor . With the exception of boy , they aren't attested ( in written documents ) until two or three centuries after the Norman Conquest . Girle , whose ...
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