Abstract

1.Introduction 2.Grammatical gender and agreement 3.Personal nouns 3.1Nouns with lexical gender 3.2Gender-indefinite personal nouns 3.3Word-formation 3.3.1Compounding 3.3.2Derivation 4.Pronominalisation 4.1Grammatical agreement relations 4.2Semantic agreement relations 4.2.1Semantic agreement: Common vs. neuter gender 4.2.2Semantic agreement: Female vs. male pronouns 5.Other possibilities for gender-specific personal reference 6.Language change under the influence of the feminist movement 6.1Neutralisation 6.2Overt gender-specification 6.3Pronouns 6.4Adjectival modification 7.Public attitudes towards feminist language change in the 1990s 8.Conclusion Notes References

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