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From: seumas@vnet.ibm.com (James Walker)
Subject: Re: Noun Genders
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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 15:45:22 GMT
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In <1995Aug9.092107.2594@onionsnatcorp.ox.ac.uk>, gmb@natcorp.ox.ac.uk (Glynis Baguley) writes:
>In article <15007710.208038723@inform-bbs.dk> OSA@inform-bbs.dk writes:
>> The discrepancy between 'natural' and grammatical gender is an old problem. 
>[...]
>
>Thanks for this: it's really interesting. So far, it seems that the
>association between grammatical gender and biological sex is pretty
>ancient, but has never been very satisfactory!

Check out Greville Corbett's book _Gender_ (1991) for an excellent
and almost-exhaustive discussion of this topic.

James
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