LLCU 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Grammatical Gender, Indo-European Languages, Genderqueer

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Grammatical gender: only around 33% of the world"s languages have sex-based gender, e. g. In french, words (including inanimate objects) are classified as either. Gender in english: english has gender only on third-person singular pronouns. He or she (setting aside things as blond and blonde: sometimes called natural gender (old english has arbitrary grammatical gender for nouns, of the type still found in. German, and in other indo-european languages. : two types of problems, unknown or non-specific gender, e. g. a distant figure, the best student in this class, someone, non-binary gender. Singular they: they has had singular uses since middle english but only with nonspecific nouns, or when gender is unknown, e. g. There"s not a man i meet but doth salute me. And then they were like (telling a story) Innovative they speakers can use it when gender is known: e. g. I just saw an actress, and i really love *their dress.

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