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Article #314Re: Gender neutral pronouns
From: Paul Amblard
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 08:50
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 08:50
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In article <1992Aug5.194441.6056@alf.uib.no> hlirg@alf.uib.no (Roger Greenwald) writes:
>In article <1992Aug5.103147.20713@discus.technion.ac.il> davidba@carmel.technion.ac.il (David Ben_Ami) writes:
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>>Hebrew is even worse than English in this respect, we differ by gender
>>also in the first and second person. (There is no gender-specific first
>>person pronoun but there is seperate conjugations).
In Basque, the gender of the second person can be indicated.
Otherwise, there is no gender in the language.
The gender of "the person hearing" can be compared to a "politeness" form,
present in a lot of languages.
In some languages of the Siouan family, the gender of the speaker is also marked.
J. Koontz could explain this for us if he reads...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!corton!babbage!imag!amblard From: amblard@imag.fr (Paul Amblard) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Gender neutral pronouns Message-ID: <38040@imag.imag.fr> Date: 7 Aug 92 08:50:54 GMT References: <2A7EFE7D.18189@noiro.acs.uci.edu> <1992Aug5.103147.20713@discus.technion.ac.il> <1992Aug5.194441.6056@alf.uib.no> Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France Lines: 17