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Say "Oui" to "We": A Longitudinal Analysis of Pronouns and Articles in French and English
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In: Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection (2019)
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Modern English only uses gender in personal, reflexive, and possessive third person singular pronouns. Modern English also does not use gendered articles, which extends to not assigning an arbitrary gender to inanimate objects. This study examines how recent this aspect of grammar is, and to what degree did cultural interaction with the French throughout history influence the use of gendered pronouns. Two written texts in British English (one in Old English, one in Modern English) and one written text in French are analyzed for elements of grammatical gender embedded within articles, pronouns, and possessive adjectives. The geopolitical influences on incorporating gender into language were also considered. This study found that gender is altogether more present in Old English and Modern French. Old English is found to have more gendered articles and pronouns than other later evolutions of English. Interactions between Norman pirates and Celtic Britons up through French words being fashionably borrowed by English nobles are evidence of geopolitical and international relations impacting the evolution of the English language.
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articles; English; French; French and Francophone Language and Literature; grammatical gender; linguistic gender; Modern Languages; pronouns
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URL: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1475&context=ugtheses https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/471
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Is Tuba Masculine or Feminine? The Timing of Grammatical Gender
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In: Psychology Faculty Publications (2019)
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Morphological Gender Innovations in Spanish of Genderqueer Speakers / Innovaciones al género morfológico en el español de hablantes genderqueer
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Les usages non discriminants du genre : comment éviter l’invisibilité sans risquer l’exclusion ? Perspective comparée anglais-français.
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In: https://medihal.archives-ouvertes.fr/medihal-02136225 ; 2019 (2019)
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Enhanced input and enriched context to improve the acquisition of the Spanish grammatical gender assignment and agreement: A preliminary study ...
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Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity ... : Volume I: General issues and specific studies ...
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Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity ... : Volume II: World-wide comparative studies ...
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The feminine anaphoric gender gram, incipient gender marking, maturity, and extracting anaphoric gender markers from parallel texts ...
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The feminine anaphoric gender gram, incipient gender marking, maturity, and extracting anaphoric gender markers from parallel texts ...
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Revisiting Research on Grammatical Gender Acquisition by Russian-Speaking Children ...
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Revisiting Research on Grammatical Gender Acquisition by Russian-Speaking Children ...
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Conceptualizing the world as ‘female’ or ‘male’: Further remarks on grammatical gender and speakers’ cognition ...
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Gender agreement in Native and Heritage Greek: an attraction study ...
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The Assignment of Grammatical Gender in German: Testing Optimal Gender Assignment Theory ...
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Corteen, Emma. - : Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, 2019
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Spanish Grammatical Gender Interference in Papiamentu
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In: Languages ; Volume 4 ; Issue 4 (2019)
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Agreement with conjoined singular noun phrases in Icelandic
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 4, No 1 (2019); 53 ; 2397-1835 (2019)
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