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Gender shifts in the history of English /

How did grammatical gender in English get replaced by a system dependent on natural gender? How is this related to 'irregular agreement' (she for ships) and 'sexist' language use (generic he) in Modern English? This study, based on extensive corpus data, offers an important histo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Curzan, Anne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Studies in English language.
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Online Access:Texto completo