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Gender and its relation to sex : the myth of 'natural gender' / Sally McConnell-Ginet -- Gender determined dialect variation / Michael Dunn -- Ladies and gentlemen : word order and gender in English / Peter Hegarty -- Gender typology / Greville G. Corbett -- Gender and culture / Marianne Mithun -- Psycholinguistic approaches to the investigation of grammatical gender / Niels O. Schiller -- Plural as a value of Cushitic gender : evidence from gender congruency effect -- Experiments in Konso (Cushitic) / Mulugeta T. Tsegaye, Maarten Mous and Niels O. Schiller
Gender is a fascinating category, which has grown steadily in importance across the humanities and social sciences. The book centres on the core of the category within language. Each of the seven contributions provides an independent account of a key part of the topic, ranging from gender and sex, gender and culture, to typology, dialect variation and psycholinguistics
