On Sexism in Language and Language Change – The Case of Peninsular Spanish
The Spanish language has been described as a sexist language due to the peculiar characteris-tics of its gender morphology. It is indicated by the o ('masculine') and a ('feminine') gender morphemes which generally represent male and female respectively. This has led to an appar-...
Main Author: | Benedicta Adokarley Lomotey |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | deu |
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Bern Open Publishing
2011-03-01
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Series: | Linguistik Online |
Online Access: | https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/1748 |
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