[Middle English gendre, from Old French, kind, gender, from Latin genus, gener-; see genə- in Indo-European roots.] gen′der·less adj. Usage Note: Some people maintain that the word sex should be reserved for reference to the biological aspects of being male or female or to sexual...
Perhaps the bulk of the studies deal with morphological and semantic issues related to the forms of nouns, both as far as Modern French and the previous stages of the language are concerned. Diachronically speaking, there is of course the question of the outcome of the Latin neuter gender, ...
social history of languageThis paper seeks to describe and account for a common ideology among Tunisians and North Africans more broadly that associates the use of French with women, thereby symbolically associating the use of Arabic with men. In this regard, the use of French can be said to ...
gender, in language, a phenomenon in which the words of a certain part of speech, usuallynouns, require the agreement, or concord, through grammatical marking (or inflection), of various other words related to them in a sentence. In languages that exhibit gender, two or more classes of noun...
The cause of gender identity disorder is not known. It has been theorized that a prenatal hormonal imbalance may predispose individuals to the disorder. Problems in the individual's family interactions or family dynamics have also been postulated as having some causal impact. ...
One of the most important differences between French and English is how gender is used. Every French noun is either masculine or feminine, and this affects how the noun is treated. This phenomenon comes from the language’s Latin origins. Archaic English had a few gender-related rules, but ...
[both: the]. Most French nouns referring to males are masculine (le garcon[the boy]), and most referring to females are feminine (la fille[the girl]), thus conforming to natural gender. Other words are placed in either gender, e.g.,le jardin[the garden] andla table[the table], ...
In addition to these basic gender distinctions, a “common” gender is also possible. Words of common gender require either masculine or feminine agreement, depending on the sex of the person named, as in the Frenchun/une enfant(“a child”) or the Russianetot/eta skriiaga(“this miser”...
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