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Gender Shifts in the History of English - Studies in English Language Curzan, Anne (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Gender Shifts in the History of English - Studies in English Language
Curzan, Anne (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
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 historical perspective on these controversial questions.
240 pages, 7 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 24, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521820073 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 236 |
| Dimensions | 159 × 238 × 27 mm · 514 g |
| Language | English |