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Gender Shifts in the History of English
by Curzan, Anne, Aarts, Bas, Algeo, John
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- ISBN-13: 9780521820073
- ISBN: 0521820073
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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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.Curzan, Anne is the author of 'Gender Shifts in the History of English' with ISBN 9780521820073 and ISBN 0521820073.
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