Feminization of language
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title:
Feminization of language
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In linguistics, feminization refers to the process of re-classifying nouns and adjectives which as such refer to male beings, including occupational terms, as feminine. This is done most of the time by adding inflectional suffixes denoting a female. In some languages with grammatical gender, for example Dutch, there is a tendency to assign the feminine gender to certain – in particular abstract – nouns which are originally masculine or neuter. This also happened to some words in Middle English w
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Reclassification of gendered nouns and adjectives
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminization_of_language
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2024-04-23T12:25:34Z
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