Sex and Gender in Natural Language

Sex and Gender in Natural Language

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The topic of this paper is the relation between a real-world Surveillance Cameras category (sex) and a linguistic category (gender).In the first part, the gender system of Indo-European languages is discussed.Then the gender-system in a language without grammatical gender is described.

Finally, a few general comments are hazarded on the difficult question of the relation between sex and gender.The paper closes Cameras and Accessories with a discussion of recent puristic efforts by the feminist movement in the U.S.

to rid English of what are termed sexist words.