Introduction In recent years, an increasing number of non-bi-nary individuals have sought recognition in Italian society. The Italian language must adapt to this new social complexity, encouraging gender-neutral pronouns and suffixes. Method As a new Italian proposal, Vera Gheno recommended the use ...
Gender is often correlated in part with sex or animateness, as in the choice ofheto replacethe man, sheto replacethe woman,oritto replacethe table.Gender is sometimes assigned without regard to the meaning of the noun, as in Frenchle livre (masculine)"the book'' or Germandas Mädchen(...
In many other languages, especially the Romance languages (such as French, Spanish, and Italian), a large number of nouns are coded as being either feminine or masculine. This used to be the case in Old English as well, but in modern English only certain nouns that describe a person who...
Gender is an inherent, context-independent property of every Italian noun, and gender agreement must be marked on almost all modifiers (i.e., articles, determiners, and adjectives-numerals are not marked for gender), on all coreferential pronouns (in- cluding full pronouns and clitics), and ...
(Bechard et al.,2017; Connolly et al.,2016; de Graaf et al.,2022; Hartig et al.,2022; Levitan et al.,2019). Non-binary young individuals may face even more discrimination and victimization than binary TGNC individuals because their gender expression (e.g., gender-neutral pronouns and ...
Gendered languages like Spanish, French and Italian, where nouns and pronouns have a gender. Genderless languages like Mandarin, where nouns and pronouns do not have a marked gender. Natural gender languages like English, with gendered pronouns and genderless nouns. ...
Speakers of Romance languages-as well as many other languages-have developed gender-neutral pronouns and other strategies for language reform where gender marking is perceived as a political issue. While these changes are derided by some, the noun classification systems like those of Swahili, ...
However, when used as a neutral pronoun, it can be used for arbitrary things or ideas that don’t necessarily have a gender, like this: Lo que quiero — What I want Lo que dijiste — What you saidGendered adjectives in Spanish
Horizontal gender segregation persists and is higher in more developed countries (gender-equality paradox). According to the theory of gender essentialism,
Neutral/mixed valence occurred in headlines with- out clear indicators of positive or negative valence, or with indicators for both; examples included: a TGD person com- ing out; information; criticism/row/debate/protest when it was not possible to assess whether they were pro or anti- TGD. ...