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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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Curzan, Anne
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Collection:Studies in English language.
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