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Gender Shifts in the History of English (Studies in English Language) (Hardcover)

~ (Author) "In the fifth century BC, according to Aristotle's account, Protagoras first created the labels masculine, feminine, and neuter for Greek nouns, and langauge scholars have..." (more)
Key Phrases: masculine anaphoric pronouns, feminine anaphoric pronouns, grammatical gender agreement, Old English, Middle English, Modern English (more...)

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"Those who pick this book up expecting a dry study of inflection ... will be delighted to find the Curzan has made linguistic research both accessible and relevant.... This volume is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of English, sociolinguistics, or language and gender. Essential." Choice

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Based on extensive research, Anne Curzan's study makes a major contribution by providing historical perspective on controversial questions regarding the continuing evolution of gender definition. How and why did grammatical gender gradually disappear from English and get replaced by a system where the gender of nouns and the use of personal pronouns depend on the natural gender of the referent? How is this shift related to "irregular agreement" (she for ships) and "sexist" language use (generic he) in Modern English? Finally, how is the language continuing to evolve 0n these respects?

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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (June 16, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521820073
ISBN-13: 978-0521820073
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
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In the fifth century BC, according to Aristotle's account, Protagoras first created the labels masculine, feminine, and neuter for Greek nouns, and langauge scholars have been trying to explain the relationship of grammatical gender categories to the world around them ever since. Read the first page

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masculine anaphoric pronouns, feminine anaphoric pronouns, grammatical gender agreement, natural gender system, generic pronoun problem, semantic gender system, masculine inanimate nouns, dialectal spread, gender agreement system, anaphoric gender agreement, grammatical gender system, anaphoric pronoun references, grammatical gender categories, gender concord, referential gender, pronoun hit, anaphoric personal pronouns, creole theories, exceptional nouns, inanimate antecedents, neuter reference, antecedent noun phrase, gender shift, anaphoric agreement, gendered words

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Old English, Middle English, Modern English, Helsinki Corpus, Old Norse, Ancrene Wisse, West Saxon, Old French, Alfred's Boethius, Lambeth Homilies, Peterborough Chronicle, United States, Vespasian Homilies, Hali Meidhad, Alfred's Cura Pastoralis, Alfred's Introduction, American English, Ben Jonson, Introduction Contemporary, Layamon's Brut, Robin Lakoff, Sawles Warde

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This book cites 100 books:

English Grammar (American Linguistics, 1700-1900) by Lindley Murray on page 58, page 73, and Back Matter
Grammar and Gender by Dennis Baron in Front Matter, page 159, and Back Matter
Middle English Dialectology: Essays on Some Principles and Problems by Angus McIntosh in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Language and Gender: A Reader by Jennifer Coates in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
The Institutes of English Grammar (American linguistics, 1700-1900) by Goold Brown on page 73, and Back Matter

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British or American English?: A Handbook of Word and Grammar Patterns (Studies in English Language) by John Algeo in Front Matter, and Back Matter
Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English (Studies in English Language) by Irma Taavitsainen in Front Matter
Northern English: A Social and Cultural History by Katie Wales in Back Matter
Nineteenth-Century English: Stability and Change (Studies in English Language) by Merja Kyt� in Front Matter
Agreement (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Greville G. Corbett in Back Matter

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