the Middle English period; therefore, Modern English largely does not have grammatical gender. Modern English lacks grammatical gender in the sense of...
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languages, English does not retain grammatical gender and most of its nouns, adjectives and pronouns are therefore not gender-specific. In most other...
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In the mid-20th century, a terminological distinction in modern English (known as the sex and gender distinction) between biological sex and gender began...
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In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not...
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languages with gender-specific pronouns, such as English, Afrikaans, Defaka, Khmu, Malayalam, Tamil, and Yazgulyam, lack grammatical gender; in such languages...
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Gender-neutral language or gender-inclusive language is language that avoids reference towards a particular sex or gender. In English, this includes use...
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creating gender-neutral language. Unlike genderless languages like English, constructing a gender-neutral sentence can be difficult or impossible in these...
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3,734 respondents reported their gender as male, 8.8% as female, and 1% as other; among contributors to the English Wikipedia, 84.7% identified as male...
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Non-binary (redirect from Gender queer)
grammatical gender Gender neutrality in genderless languages Gender neutrality in English Gender marking in job titles Gender-specific and gender-neutral pronouns...
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with the noun in number. They do not typically inflect for degree of comparison. English pronouns conserve many traits of case and gender inflection. The...
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aspects of gender usage in English have been influenced by the movement towards a preference for gender-neutral language. Animals are triple-gender nouns,...
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birth). Gender fluidity is different from gender-questioning, a process in which people explore their gender in order to find their true gender identity...
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genders similar to English. Historically, nouns in standard Danish and Swedish, like other Germanic languages, had one of three grammatical genders:...
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While in ordinary speech, the terms sex and gender are often used interchangeably, in contemporary academic literature, the terms often have distinct...
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word in the English language, accounting for 7% of all words used. The can be used with both singular and plural nouns, with nouns of any gender, and...
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A gender role, or sex role, is a social norm deemed appropriate or desirable for individuals based on their gender or sex. Gender roles are usually centered...
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guides warn writers to avoid the passive voice. Gender neutrality in English: Gender-specific and gender-neutral pronouns – Replacing masculine pronouns...
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Singular they (redirect from Gender-neutral third person singular pronoun in English)
error. Its continued use in modern standard English has become more common and formally accepted with the move toward gender-neutral language. Some early-21st-century...
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systemic bias, particularly gender bias against women and ideological bias. While its reliability was frequently criticized in the 2000s, it has improved...
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The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English...
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natural gender, not grammatical gender: as in Modern English, hwā is used with people, hwæt with things. However, that distinction only matters in the nominative...
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Gender inequality in the English Caribbean refers to gaps between individuals based on gender in the Anglophone countries of the Caribbean. These gaps...
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Kathoey (category Gender systems)
unjust gender discrimination as of January 2015, but a separate third gender category has not yet been legally recognized. Androgynous men in Khmer society...
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Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender. Gender identity can correlate with a person's assigned sex or can differ from it. In most individuals...
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In the Dutch language, the gender of a noun determines the articles, adjective forms and pronouns that are used in reference to that noun. Gender is a...
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Agreement (linguistics) (redirect from Subject-Verb Agreement in English)
grammatical category (such as gender or person) "agree" between varied words or parts of the sentence. For example, in Standard English, one may say I am or he...
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Declension (redirect from Declension in English)
complex in their forms. In this example, all four forms are pronounced distinctly. For nouns, in general, gender is not declined in Modern English. There...
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity is a 1990 book by the post-structuralist gender theorist and philosopher Judith Butler in which...
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This is a list of gender identities. Gender identity can be understood to include how people describe, present, and feel about themselves. Abinary Agender...
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All German nouns are included in one of three genders: masculine, feminine or neuter. While the gender often does not directly influence the plural forms...
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