GRAMMATICAL GENDER AND SOCIAL RELATIONS

In this paper we explore the influence that social relations beyond gender/sex have on the grammatical genders of some languages, and how these social relations add to the criteria for classifying nouns in different grammatical genders based on the principle of sexual distinction. We also show how c...

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Published inRevista virtual de estudos da linguagem Vol. 17; no. 16; p. 23
Main Authors Colaço Mäder, Guilherme Ribeiro, Moura, Heronides
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Lisbon ReVel 01.11.2019
Subjects
Grammatical gender
Interpersonal relations
Nouns
Social factors
Sociolinguistics
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Summary:In this paper we explore the influence that social relations beyond gender/sex have on the grammatical genders of some languages, and how these social relations add to the criteria for classifying nouns in different grammatical genders based on the principle of sexual distinction. We also show how certain types of social relations affect nouns referring to male and female humans differently, but behave in a reasonably homogeneous way in languages of different families and in distant geographical regions.
ISSN:1678-8931