GRAMMATICAL GENDER AND SOCIAL RELATIONS

• Published in: Revista virtual de estudos da linguagem Vol. 17; no. 16; p. 23
• Main Authors: Colaço Mäder, Guilherme Ribeiro, Moura, Heronides
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lisbon ReVel 01.11.2019
• Subjects: Grammatical gender; Interpersonal relations; Nouns; Social factors; Sociolinguistics

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...