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Gender markers and gender marking with personal dual gender nouns: a corpus study
2014. urn:nbn:hr:142:592543
Javorček, Marta
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Javorček, M. (2014). Gender markers and gender marking with personal dual gender nouns: a corpus study (Undergraduate thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:592543

Javorček, Marta. "Gender markers and gender marking with personal dual gender nouns: a corpus study." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2014. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:592543

Javorček, Marta. "Gender markers and gender marking with personal dual gender nouns: a corpus study." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2014. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:592543

Javorček, M. (2014). 'Gender markers and gender marking with personal dual gender nouns: a corpus study', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 22 March 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:592543

Javorček M. Gender markers and gender marking with personal dual gender nouns: a corpus study [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2014 [cited 2025 March 22] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:592543

M. Javorček, "Gender markers and gender marking with personal dual gender nouns: a corpus study", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2014. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:592543

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TitleGender markers and gender marking with personal dual gender nouns: a corpus study
Title (croatian)Oznake za rod i označavanje roda u imenica dvojnoga roda koje označavaju osobe: korpusna studija
AuthorMarta Javorček
MentorGabrijela Buljan (mentor)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2014-09-15, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This paper is mainly concerned with the grammatical category of gender in the English language. More particularly, it explores gender markers and gender marking along with personal dual gender nouns. It starts with the theoretical analysis of the phenomenon, in which we define gender as a grammatical category of nouns with a three-way distinction between masculine, feminine and neuter, based on the properties of the noun and its referents. We then continue with examining personal masculine nouns and personal feminine nouns, which can be either morphologically unmarked between male and female (mother and father), or the two gender forms can have a derivational relationship (bride and bridegroom). In the next part, we focus on personal dual gender nouns, a class that includes a fairly large number of nouns which are neutral for gender, or in other words, may stand for referents of both sexes (doctor, artist, lawyer). We finish the theoretical part with a section about sexual bias in the English language and explore the tendency of the language to reflect societal differences in the typical roles of men and women. Our corpus study analyses a few personal dual gender nouns chosen from those presented in the results of the corpus studies reported in the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English by Biber et al (1999). We start with analysing a few gender-neutral nouns that end with person(s)/-people (chairperson, spokesperson), continue with unmarked gender-neutral nouns (doctor, artist), and finish with the uniquely feminine terms (charwoman, needlewoman).
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:592543
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: Pedagogy (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) pedagogije (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) pedagogije)
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