Re: OT: Gender Bending Moro
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 3, 2005, 15:56 |
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In a message dated 4/2/2005 11:43:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
puchitao@GMAIL.COM writes:
>This issue -- gender in language and its relationship with sexual
>politics -- is one I've always wondered about, but I've never managed
>to find much cross-linguistic data about it. Or really any data at
>all; usually I just hear it asserted as a truism. Does anyone have
>any pointers to studies about this? Especially about, as Pascal
>mentioned, societies that are more female-dominant?
In his book _Gender_, Greville Corbett says that there is no clear
correlation between grammatical gender systems and sex roles in human societies.
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